Post by Greener on Oct 9, 2010 18:47:07 GMT -5
Okla. death row inmate wants execution blocked
AP
Friday, October 8, 2010
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge is hearing testimony from Oklahoma corrections officials in a death row inmate's plea to halt his execution.
Forty-year-old Donald Ray Wackerly is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday. He was sentenced to death for the September 1996 shooting death of fisherman Pan Sayakhoummane during a robbery in rural Sequoyah County.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot heard testimony Friday about a nationwide shortage of one of the drugs used in Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol, sodium thiopental, a fast-acting anesthetic.
Corrections officials say they have just one five-gram dose of the drug and no plan to get more if it is spoiled. The execution of death row inmate Jeffrey David Matthews has already been stayed because of the shortage.
AP
Friday, October 8, 2010
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge is hearing testimony from Oklahoma corrections officials in a death row inmate's plea to halt his execution.
Forty-year-old Donald Ray Wackerly is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday. He was sentenced to death for the September 1996 shooting death of fisherman Pan Sayakhoummane during a robbery in rural Sequoyah County.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot heard testimony Friday about a nationwide shortage of one of the drugs used in Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol, sodium thiopental, a fast-acting anesthetic.
Corrections officials say they have just one five-gram dose of the drug and no plan to get more if it is spoiled. The execution of death row inmate Jeffrey David Matthews has already been stayed because of the shortage.