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Oklahoma calls off executions after receiving wrong lethal injection drug
Source: Associated Press
Oklahoma calls off executions after receiving wrong lethal injection drug
Associated Press
Thursday 1 October 2015 20.58 BST
Oklahoma will delay all scheduled executions while it reviews how the department of corrections received the wrong drug as it prepared to lethally inject an inmate.
The state attorney general, Scott Pruitt, filed paperwork on Thursday asking the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals to halt next Wednesday’s execution of Benjamin Cole, plus the executions of John Marion Grant and Richard Glossip over the next month.
Glossip was set to die on Wednesday, but Governor Mary Fallin halted the execution after the department of corrections said it had received a shipment of potassium acetate, rather than the potassium chloride listed in the state’s protocols.
Pruitt said his office needs time to determine what went wrong on Wednesday and whether the state’s execution guidelines should be reviewed again.
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Associated Press
Thursday 1 October 2015 20.58 BST
Oklahoma will delay all scheduled executions while it reviews how the department of corrections received the wrong drug as it prepared to lethally inject an inmate.
The state attorney general, Scott Pruitt, filed paperwork on Thursday asking the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals to halt next Wednesday’s execution of Benjamin Cole, plus the executions of John Marion Grant and Richard Glossip over the next month.
Glossip was set to die on Wednesday, but Governor Mary Fallin halted the execution after the department of corrections said it had received a shipment of potassium acetate, rather than the potassium chloride listed in the state’s protocols.
Pruitt said his office needs time to determine what went wrong on Wednesday and whether the state’s execution guidelines should be reviewed again.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/01/oklahoma-calls-off-executions-wrong-drug-richard-glossip
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