Oklahoma takes next step on executions

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Lyle Denniston Independent Contractor Reporter

Posted Mon, January 26th, 2015 12:29 pm

Oklahoma takes next step on executions (FURTHER UPDATED)

FURTHER UPDATED Monday 5:23 p.m. The three inmates’ lawyers have now filed a response, urging the Court to delay the execution until after it decides the case on the merits; they do not support cutting off a stay if Oklahoma adopts a new protocol.

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UPDATED Monday 2:46 p.m. The application to delay the executions (docket 14A796) is here. The state said it is continuing to search for a supply of drugs previously approved for lethal injections and, if it locates them, would then ask the Court for permission to go ahead with the executions. Otherwise, it sought a delay until after the Supreme Court rules on the pending case, which will be heard in late April.

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http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/01/oklahoma-takes-next-step-on-executions/

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Oklahoma executions put off

By Lyle Denniston on Jan 28, 2015 at 2:58 pm

Without a noted dissent, the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon delayed the scheduled execution of three Oklahoma death-row inmates, whose case the Justices will hear in late April. The executions were put on hold, but only so far as the state would use a specific drug in the procedure — the sedative midazolam.

Although the order blocked the execution until a final ruling is issued in that case, the fact that the order was specific in forbidding the state temporarily from using only one specific drug left Oklahoma with the option of trying to develop a new lethal-drug protocol that could free it to resume executions.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/01/oklahoma-executions-put-off/#more-224457