Monday, January 26, 2015

It looks as though Oklahoma has ended it's experimental torture protocols.


January 26, 2015
By Cary Aspinwall

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (click here) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay three pending executions until it conducts a review of the state's lethal injection protocol. 
The Supreme Court voted last week to take up a challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol that alleges the process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

The Attorney General's application Monday seeks the stays until a resolution of the U.S. Supreme Court action in Glossip v. Gross, or until the Oklahoma Department of Corrections has obtained a viable alternative of drugs for use in the executions.
Inmate Richard Glossip is scheduled to be executed Thursday. He is among 21 death-row inmates who filed the lawsuit last summer, after the execution of Clayton Lockett went awry on April 29, 2014....