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| Oklahoma sets execution dates for inmates who challenged injection drugs |
| By theguardian.com |
| Published: 07/09/2015 |
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Oklahoma’s highest criminal court on Wednesday set execution dates for three death row inmates who challenged the use of a drug that will be used in their lethal injections. The Oklahoma court of criminal appeals set execution dates of 16 September for 52-year-old Richard Eugene Glossip, 7 October for 50-year-old Benjamin Robert Cole, and 28 October for 54-year-old John Marion Grant. The three inmates had argued that the state’s planned use of the sedative midazolam risked subjecting them to pain and suffering because it doesn’t properly render a person unconscious. But the US supreme court ruled last month in a 5-4 decision that the drug can be used in executions without violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Terri Watkins, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said Wednesday that the state has access to the drugs needed to carry out all three executions. Read More. |
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