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After Court Drama, Oklahoma to Have 2 Executions
ABC News ^ | April 23, 2014 | Sean Murphy

Posted on 04/24/2014 4:05:19 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

Oklahoma plans to hold its first double execution in nearly 80 years, Gov. Mary Fallin said Thursday.

The move comes a day after the state Supreme Court removed one of the final obstacles, ruling late Wednesday that Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them. The inmates had sought that information through a civil lawsuit.

"The defendants had their day in court. The court has made a decision," Gov. Mary Fallin said in a statement. "Two men that do not contest their guilt in heinous murders will now face justice, and the families and friends of their victims will now have closure."

The Oklahoma Supreme Court also dissolved a stay of execution it had issued earlier in the week in a sharply divided and much criticized 5-4 decision. Because the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction over criminal matters, Fallin and others accused the state's high court of initially overstepping its bounds.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: abcnews; capitalpunishment; charleswarner; claytonlockett; execution; lethalinjection; maryfallin; oklahoma; seanmurphy

1 posted on 04/24/2014 4:05:19 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First
From the article:

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is working on specifics and logistics of how the April 29 executions will be carried out, Fallin said. The state has not executed two inmates on the same day since convicted murderers Charlie Sands and Leon Siler were electrocuted on June 11, 1937.

So, the logistical difficulty of two in one day is almost too much for American ingenuity? /S

2 posted on 04/24/2014 4:10:27 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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“Well, it’s a lead-copper composite. Lead inside a copper jacket. And it is pretty quick acting.”


3 posted on 04/24/2014 4:10:50 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Double gurney. Let them go together.


4 posted on 04/24/2014 4:12:30 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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I love doubleheaders.....!!!!!


5 posted on 04/24/2014 4:13:33 PM PDT by njslim (T)
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To: Second Amendment First

Double gurney—like a twin stroller, only larger.


6 posted on 04/24/2014 4:13:52 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Second Amendment First

Nitrogen Asphyxiation


7 posted on 04/24/2014 4:17:56 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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not entitled to know the source of the drugs

Some “judge” allowed a delay for that? Did their victims get a delay to find out who manufactured their murder weapons?


8 posted on 04/24/2014 4:24:49 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Have one at 23:55 and the other at 00:05. Two different days, problem solved (whatever the problem was).


9 posted on 04/24/2014 4:30:53 PM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: Second Amendment First

One of these scum balls raped an 11 month baby, They should him something special, like maybe Drano in the IV.


10 posted on 04/24/2014 4:49:19 PM PDT by amigatec (The only change you will see in the next four years will be what's in your pocket.)
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To: njslim

They should call up Lon Horuchi- he’s famous for two offers.

This time however, he’d actually be shooting criminals that is if they can pull the coward out of the bunker the slime has been hiding in for decades.


11 posted on 04/24/2014 5:38:49 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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Give them a couple 8 balls of coke, on the main....watch their hearts blow outa their chests. They’ll be juking, and jumping a week dead.

That’ll give the MSM something to talk about;-)


12 posted on 04/24/2014 5:42:08 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Put them in a cage and tell them whichever kills the other first gets his sentence reduced to life in prison.


13 posted on 04/24/2014 5:42:44 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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Cage Match PPV!!


14 posted on 04/24/2014 5:51:09 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Tryouts.
15 posted on 04/24/2014 5:58:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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