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Jun 10, 2022 · CNN — Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen...
Mar 8, 2022 · Lawyers for the plaintiffs said they expected that a ruling in Oklahoma’s favor would lead the state to quickly schedule executions among the 40 people currently on death row.
Jun 6, 2022 · A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state's three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen...
Jun 7, 2022 · Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol.
Jul 5, 2022 · U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot, a George W. Bush appointee, however, ruled on June 6, 2022 that Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol — which uses midazolam (a sedative), vecuronium bromide (a paralytic), and potassium chloride (a drug that stops the heart) — does not violate the Eighth Amendment ‘s prohibition against cruel and unusual punish...
Sep 25, 2024 · The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday denied death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn's request for an emergency stay of execution. Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed by lethal injection at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
Jun 6, 2022 · A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled today that the state's lethal injection method is constitutional. The case challenged the execution protocol on behalf of two dozen death row inmates.
