The State of Oklahoma accuses Mr. Warner's attorney of using a public campaign as a strategy to obtain a permanent stay.
Katie Fretland in Oklahoma City
The state (click here) said it would notify the court of any need for an additional stay in Warner's case as the review of Lockett's death continued.
"Warner's litigation conduct over the past 60 days demonstrates a strategic choice by his counsel to pursue an endless media campaign against capital punishment in Oklahoma instead of exhausting available legal remedies in the proper court," wrote Seth Branham, an assistant attorney general.
"His request for indefinite stay is merely an extension of that strategy."
Warner's attorneys welcomed the 180-day stay. "We await the results of an independent autopsy on Clayton Lockett, and expect full transparency from Oklahoma regarding all findings about what went wrong in Mr Lockett’s death," attorneys Susanna Gattoni and Seth Day said in a statement. "The extreme secrecy surrounding lethal injection that led to Mr Lockett’s agonising death must be replaced with transparency in order to ensure that executions are legal and humane."
A Democratic member of the state house of representatives, Joe Dorman, who is running against Governor Fallin, plans to hold a press conference at the state capitol on Thursday, to call for an outside investigation of Lockett’s death...
Katie Fretland in Oklahoma City
The state (click here) said it would notify the court of any need for an additional stay in Warner's case as the review of Lockett's death continued.
"Warner's litigation conduct over the past 60 days demonstrates a strategic choice by his counsel to pursue an endless media campaign against capital punishment in Oklahoma instead of exhausting available legal remedies in the proper court," wrote Seth Branham, an assistant attorney general.
"His request for indefinite stay is merely an extension of that strategy."
Warner's attorneys welcomed the 180-day stay. "We await the results of an independent autopsy on Clayton Lockett, and expect full transparency from Oklahoma regarding all findings about what went wrong in Mr Lockett’s death," attorneys Susanna Gattoni and Seth Day said in a statement. "The extreme secrecy surrounding lethal injection that led to Mr Lockett’s agonising death must be replaced with transparency in order to ensure that executions are legal and humane."
A Democratic member of the state house of representatives, Joe Dorman, who is running against Governor Fallin, plans to hold a press conference at the state capitol on Thursday, to call for an outside investigation of Lockett’s death...
