Tag: lethal injection
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Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty analyzes grand jury report
Patrick B. McGuigan, editor , The City Sentinel Wednesday, May 26, 2016 OKLAHOMA CITY – The leading group organizing continued opposition to the state’s use of executions as a means of punishment held a major press conference at the Oklahoma state […]
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Executions remain on hold in Oklahoma as grand jury investigation continues, commission begins
Associated Press, Sunday, April 3, 2016 OKLAHOMA CITY — After Oklahoma bungled its last two lethal injections and had a third called off amid a drug mix-up, executions have come to a halt in a state that typically has one […]
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Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Responds to Supreme Court Ruing on Lethal Injection
On June 29, 2015, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Glossip v. Gross, ruling that the anti-anxiety medication midazolam is constitutional for use as the first drug in a three-drug lethal injection formula. The case […]
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