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| Glossip execution halted by governor |
| By woodwardnews.net |
| Published: 10/01/2015 |
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MCALESTER — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin issued a last-minute stay for death row inmate Richard Glossip on Wednesday after authorities realized one of the drugs they planned to use for the execution wasn't what they thought it was. Glossip was just minutes away from lethal injection when the mistake was realized at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Glossip was scheduled for execution at 3 p.m. for the 1997 killing of Barry Van Treese in Oklahoma City. Authorities planned to use a cocktail of drugs — midazolam, potassium chloride, and rocuronium bromide — to carry out the death sentence. But at the last minute, Gov. Fallin said someone at the Department of Corrections realized they had the wrong drug. What they thought was potassium chloride was actually potassium acetate, causing Fallin to halt the execution for 37 days. Read More. |
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