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....
