‘Suck it up’: Oklahoma judge has no sympathy for executioners’ stress
11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Suck it up’: Oklahoma judge has no sympathy for executioners’ stress

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Oklahoma judge told state execution staff that they needed to “suck it up” after they asked for more time between executions to recover from stress. Judge Gary Lumpkin made the comments during a hearing last week regarding whether the state should increase its time between executions from 60 days to 90 days, according to The Frontier, an Oklahoma non-profit outlet. According to The Frontier, Judge Lumpkin told the state officials to “man up”, adding, “We set a reasonable amount of time to start this out and y’all keep pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond previously asked the court to schedule executions 60 days apart, citing concerns about botched executions.

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'Suck it up': Judge blasts 'sympathy stuff' as death row executioners ask for trauma break
11 months, 3 weeks ago

'Suck it up': Judge blasts 'sympathy stuff' as death row executioners ask for trauma break

Raw Story  

Executioners traumatized by killing Oklahoma’s death row prisoners asked a judge to slow down the pace of the procedures to help them deal with the emotional toll. The judge responded that they needed to “suck it up.” The request had been made by the state’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Steven Harpe, the director of the Department of Corrections. …

Oklahoma Judge Tells Execution Staff to “Suck It Up” After Trauma-Break Request
55 years, 2 months ago

Oklahoma Judge Tells Execution Staff to “Suck It Up” After Trauma-Break Request

Slate  

Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, and Steven Harpe, the director of the Department of Corrections, want to slow down the pace of their state’s upcoming executions, moving from a 60-day to a 90-day interval between each of them. He insisted that he would not buy into arguments about the traumatic effects of participating in executions, which he derisively labeled …

Supreme Court temporarily halts impending Richard Glossip execution amid potential appeal
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court temporarily halts impending Richard Glossip execution amid potential appeal

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to temporarily stay …

New Oklahoma AG seeks to slow pace of lethal injections
2 years, 2 months ago

New Oklahoma AG seeks to slow pace of lethal injections

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s current schedule of executing a death row inmate roughly every 30 days is placing too much of a burden on prison staff and should be slowed down, the state’s new attorney general wrote in a motion filed Wednesday with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who witnessed last week’s execution of Scott …

Alabama governor seeks more time to carry out executions
2 years, 3 months ago

Alabama governor seeks more time to carry out executions

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. “In several recent executions, last-minute gamesmanship by death row inmates and their lawyers has consumed a lot of valuable time, preventing the department from carrying out its execution protocol between the conclusion of all legal challenges in the federal courts and the expiration at the death warrant issued by your court,” Ivey wrote. While Ivey …

Oklahoma court denies new hearing for death row inmate
2 years, 4 months ago

Oklahoma court denies new hearing for death row inmate

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Oklahoma appeals court on …

Oklahoma official seeks execution dates for 25 inmates
2 years, 9 months ago

Oklahoma official seeks execution dates for 25 inmates

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s attorney general has asked the state’s highest appeals court to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates following a federal judge’s rejection of their challenge to the state’s lethal injection method. In 25 similar filings with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday, Attorney General John O’Connor wrote that the federal court’s stays of …

Oklahoma attorneys say execution method is constitutional
3 years ago

Oklahoma attorneys say execution method is constitutional

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — The three-drug lethal injection method Oklahoma uses is constitutional and is unlikely to lead to inmates experiencing much pain before they die, Oklahoma’s solicitor general told a federal judge on Monday. Mithun Mansinghani told U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot that the four lethal injections the state has carried out since October “are definitive proof that the protocol …

Oklahoma judge stays Jan. 6 execution for competency hearing
3 years, 3 months ago

Oklahoma judge stays Jan. 6 execution for competency hearing

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A state court judge in Oklahoma granted a temporary stay of execution on Monday for a death row inmate convicted of killing a security guard during a 2004 bank robbery in Tulsa. Lay was scheduled to be executed on Jan. 6, but after a hearing before Mills last week, the judge determined there was “good reason” to …

John Grant: Oklahoma accused of botching first execution after 6-year hiatus
3 years, 4 months ago

John Grant: Oklahoma accused of botching first execution after 6-year hiatus

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Oklahoma killed its first …

Oklahoma Carries Out Third Consecutive Botched Execution After Yearslong Hiatus
3 years, 4 months ago

Oklahoma Carries Out Third Consecutive Botched Execution After Yearslong Hiatus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING After a six-year pause, Oklahoma carried out its third consecutive botched execution Thursday, causing 60-year-old John Marion Grant to vomit, convulse and curse as he was killed with a lethal injection of three drugs. There should be no more executions in Oklahoma until we go trial in February to address the state’s problematic lethal injection protocol.” John …

Timeline of events involving capital punishment in Oklahoma
3 years, 4 months ago

Timeline of events involving capital punishment in Oklahoma

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma conducted 112 executions from 1976 to October 2015, when the state imposed a moratorium following three consecutive flawed executions or attempted executions. The U.S. Supreme Court says later it will consider whether Oklahoma can use midazolam during executions, but it doesn’t disrupt Warner’s rescheduled execution. — June 29, 2015: A divided U.S. Supreme Court upholds Oklahoma’s …

Federal appeals court temporarily halts Oklahoma executions
3 years, 4 months ago

Federal appeals court temporarily halts Oklahoma executions

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. The panel wrote, “We find nothing in the relevant case law that specifically requires a prisoner to designate a method of execution to be used in his case by ‘checking a box’ …

Oklahoma sets 7 executions in 6 months; 1st since 2015
3 years, 6 months ago

Oklahoma sets 7 executions in 6 months; 1st since 2015

Associated Press  

Oklahoma scheduled seven executions Monday in what would be the first lethal injections for the state since putting them on hold six years ago following a series of mishaps. Among the men scheduled to die is Julius Darius Jones, even though the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board just last week recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in …

Oklahoma seeks execution dates for 7 death-row inmates
3 years, 6 months ago

Oklahoma seeks execution dates for 7 death-row inmates

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Oklahoma’s new attorney general filed …

Federal judge says Oklahoma death penalty suit can proceed
3 years, 7 months ago

Federal judge says Oklahoma death penalty suit can proceed

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled Wednesday a lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal injection protocols can proceed to trial, making it likely Oklahoma’s de facto moratorium on executions will extend into a seventh year. U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot agreed in his order to consider at trial whether Oklahoma’s current three-drug protocol risks subjecting inmates to …

Justice Dept. plans 3 more executions in lame-duck period
4 years, 4 months ago

Justice Dept. plans 3 more executions in lame-duck period

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Justice Department has scheduled …

Oklahoma death row inmates seek injection protocol challenge
5 years ago

Oklahoma death row inmates seek injection protocol challenge

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma is ill-prepared to resume executing inmates and its new lethal injection protocols would violate the constitutional rights of prisoners, attorneys for death row inmates said in a court filing Thursday. Attorneys for several Oklahoma death row inmates filed a motion to reopen a case in federal court in Oklahoma City that challenges Oklahoma’s lethal injection method. …

Attorney general says Oklahoma to resume executions
5 years, 1 month ago

Attorney general says Oklahoma to resume executions

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma plans to resume executing death-row inmates, five years after lethal injections were put on hold following a series of death-chamber mishaps, state officials announced Thursday. Kevin Stitt, Attorney General Mike Hunter and Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Scott Crow said in a joint news release that the state will resume executions using a three-drug lethal injection …

Oklahoma AG says state moving forward with execution plans
7 years, 10 months ago

Oklahoma AG says state moving forward with execution plans

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a unanimous recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a moratorium on the death penalty remain in place, the state’s new attorney general said Wednesday. Republican Mike Hunter said while he respects the independent work of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission, he “respectfully …

Panel recommends keeping moratorium on Oklahoma executions
7 years, 10 months ago

Panel recommends keeping moratorium on Oklahoma executions

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A moratorium on executions in Oklahoma should be extended until major changes are made to the state’s capital punishment system so that an innocent person isn’t put to death, a state commission recommended on Tuesday. “Ultimately we found that there are many serious systemic flaws in Oklahoma’s death penalty process that obviously can and have led to …

Seven people to be executed in 11 days because lethal injection drugs are about to expire
7 years, 11 months ago

Seven people to be executed in 11 days because lethal injection drugs are about to expire

The Independent  

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Oklahoma puts executions on hold after botched attempts
8 years, 6 months ago

Oklahoma puts executions on hold after botched attempts

Al Jazeera  

After years of controversy over lethal injection failures, US state now plans to execute inmates with nitrogen gas. Oklahoma, a US state with one of the busiest death chambers in the country over the past three decades, will have at least a two-year delay in lethal injections after officials declined to consider new execution procedures. After a botched execution in …

Despite botched executions, Oklahoma to resume death penalty
9 years ago

Despite botched executions, Oklahoma to resume death penalty

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Despite Oklahoma’s bungling of its last three scheduled executions, the state’s top law enforcement officer said justice demands that lethal injections resume once his office’s probe into the last two drug mix-ups are complete. Pruitt declined to discuss details while the probe was ongoing, but said state officials have a duty to Oklahoma citizens, who overwhelmingly support …

Latest: Oklahoma officials call execution delay frustrating
9 years, 5 months ago

Latest: Oklahoma officials call execution delay frustrating

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — The latest on the scheduled execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who received a last-minute stay amid questions over one of the drugs that would have been used in his lethal injection : 5:45 p.m. A spokesman for Gov. ___ 3:10 p.m. About 30 people have gathered in front of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion to …

Appeals court rules Oklahoma executions can proceed
10 years, 2 months ago

Appeals court rules Oklahoma executions can proceed

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request by four Oklahoma death row inmates for a stay of execution, paving the way for the state’s first lethal injection since a problematic execution in the spring. “We will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the scheduled executions from going forward due to the substantial risk of …

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training
10 years, 6 months ago

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma turned to a 15-year physician and a medical technician with 40 years’ experience to put Clayton Lockett to death, yet his execution still went awry. “We think that the IV was a big issue with the execution.” Out of modesty, no one monitored an intravenous line that had been placed in Lockett’s groin before the start …

UPDATED: After One Botched Execution, Oklahoma Stays A Second
10 years, 10 months ago

UPDATED: After One Botched Execution, Oklahoma Stays A Second

NPR  

UPDATED: After One Botched Execution, Oklahoma Stays A Second Update at 8:19 p.m. Execution Fails: Enlarge this image toggle caption Uncredited/AP Uncredited/AP According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Update at 11:02 p.m. Attorney Says Warner 'Tortured To Death': Warner's attorney issued a statement calling for …

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