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| 2 more death row inmates await execution dates amid probe |
| By koco.com |
| Published: 01/26/2016 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals agreed Monday to wait to set execution dates for two more death row inmates until a grand jury finishes its closed-door investigation into drug mix-ups during the state's last two lethal injections. The court granted the stays for two convicted killers - Richard Stephen Fairchild and Jeremy Alan Williams - who have already exhausted all state and federal appeals of their convictions and death sentences. This brings to five the number of inmates whose executions have been put on hold while Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office continues to explore how the wrong drug was delivered for the state's last two executions. The five-member court said it wouldn't be appropriate to set execution dates for Fairchild and Williams while the grand jury probe is ongoing. Fairchild, 56, was sentenced to die for the 1993 beating death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in Del City. Williams, 32, was given the death penalty for killing a bank teller during a robbery of Tulsa's First Fidelity Bank in 2004. The court already has issued stays of execution for three other death row inmates - Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole and John Grant. Read More. |
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