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Oklahoma secrecy laws allow the state to obscure where it gets lethal injection drugs. Given the state's track record, the critics say, that shouldn't be the case.
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A lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is going to trial. Here’s what’s at stakeThe outcome of an upcoming federal trial will have long-lasting implications for the death penalty in Oklahoma.
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Six years after pausing the administration of the death penalty in the state, Oklahoma carried out an execution on Thursday that did not go according to plan. During injection of the three-drug cocktail, inmate John Grant convulsed more than two dozen times and vomited, before losing consciousness and dying in the execution chamber. Witnesses described a gruesome sight, and the Grant execution casts doubt over the next executions the state is planning, including that of Julius Jones.
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The condemned man enters the room where he will draw his last breath.He will be restrained in some way, perhaps strapped to the T-shaped platform where…
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A federal judge is expected to hear arguments from attorneys for a group of journalists and news organizations who want to prevent the state from…
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A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for next month in a lawsuit filed by two news organizations that want to stop Oklahoma from using a new execution…
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Attorneys for two news organizations suing Oklahoma prison officials for preventing reporters from viewing portions of an execution that went awry in the…
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The head of Oklahoma's prisons system says he is confident the state can resume executions in November despite a federal judge's concern that the prison…