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Oklahoma to execute one prisoner a month until 2025

2022-07-04T13:46:46.375Z


The lethal injection was paralyzed for years due to legal battles and complaints of alleged errors that could cause pain to those sentenced.


Oklahoma plans to execute 25 prisoners in the next 29 months following the end of a moratorium on the death penalty over a problem with lethal injections and a legal battle over how to apply it.

This implies that there will be one execution per month until 2025, according to The Washington Post.

A federal judge ruled in June that Oklahoma's three-drug lethal injection protocol is constitutional, and Republican Attorney General John O'Connor asked the court to date pending death sentences in the state. .

An appeals court on Friday set execution dates for 25 prisoners, more than half of the state's 44 death row inmates.

The first execution was scheduled for August 25, and subsequent executions will take place approximately every four weeks.

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O'Connor said that the prisoners had already exhausted their judicial resources and argued that their execution was a matter of justice for the families of the victims.

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Execution method controversy

Oklahoma has a history of executions with errors that have generated repudiation.

In 2014, an inmate named Clayton D. Lockett appeared to moan and struggle during an execution that lasted 43 minutes.

Doctors concluded that he had not been adequately sedated.

In 2015, Charles F. Warner was subjected to an 18-minute execution in which officials 

mistakenly used the wrong medication to stop his heart

.

[This murderer will be executed despite his complaints because the Constitution does not require that the death penalty be "painless"]

Executions in Oklahoma were halted in 2015 after a series of reports of lethal injection errors.

They resumed in October 2021, when the Supreme Court lifted the stay on the execution of two convicts: John Marion Grant and Julius Jones.

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The two inmates had argued that the state's lethal injection protocol could subject them to excruciating pain, according to The New York Times.

In addition, 

they refused on religious grounds

 a judge's order for them to choose an alternative method of execution, claiming that this would amount to suicide.

Grant, 60, was executed in October 2021. He convulsed and vomited before he died, thus renewing doubts and criticism.

Jones, 41, was scheduled to be executed in November for a 1999 murder he has always denied.

The governor, Republican Kevin Stitt, commuted his sentence at the last minute.

His execution had drawn the most public attention in decades in the state, prompting Oklahoma City high school students to walk out of classes, vigils to be held outside the state Capitol, and barricades to be erected outside the governor's mansion.

The Supreme Court has generally been skeptical of lethal injection challenges, requiring inmates to show that they would be subjected to "a substantial risk of severe pain."

In addition, they must propose another way to die. 

Source: telemundo

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