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Oklahoma court resets executions amid drug search
Yahoo! News ^ | 3/18/14 | Bailey Elise McBride - ap

Posted on 03/18/2014 2:16:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next so state prison officials will have more time to find a supply of drugs for the lethal injections.

The decision came in a lawsuit in which two inmates had sought more information about the drugs that would be used to execute them later this month. The inmates had sought a stay of their executions, but the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals said that request was moot because the state Department of Corrections doesn't have enough drugs on hand to carry out their death sentences.

"The attorney general's attestations give this court no confidence that the state will be able to procure the necessary drugs before the scheduled executions are carried out," the court wrote.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: executions; oklahoma; resets
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To: fwdude

Fairly easy, I’d think. I believe it’s used in agriculture and all kinds of industrial applications.


21 posted on 03/18/2014 4:23:23 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: NormsRevenge

D-Con ?


22 posted on 03/18/2014 4:44:27 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No way should we waste perfectly good ammo on executions. A rope is good enough.


23 posted on 03/18/2014 6:30:53 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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