04-24-2014, 04:56 PM
^ Oklahoma...to the left....to the right.
So, The Oklahoma Supreme Court dissolved the stays of execution it had issued earlier in the week in a sharply divided and much criticized 5-4 decision. Because the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction over criminal matters, Governor Fallin and others had accused the state's high court of initially overstepping its bounds. Now, the state has announced it will carry out the first double execution in over 75 years next week.
"This ruling (reversing the stay) shows that our legal system works," Fallin said of the high court's latest decision.
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The state of Oklahoma is going to execute both ^ Warner and Lockett on April 29th. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is working on specifics and logistics of how the executions will be carried out, Fallin said. The state has not executed two inmates on the same day since convicted murderers Charlie Sands and Leon Siler were electrocuted on June 11, 1937.
"The defendants had their day in court. The court has made a decision. Two men that do not contest their guilt in heinous murders will now face justice, and the families and friends of their victims will now have closure." -- Governor Mary Fallin
On the other side, Seth Day, an attorney for Lockett and Warner, said that without knowing the source of the drugs, the public has no way of knowing whether the execution will be carried out in a "constitutional and humane manner."
So, The Oklahoma Supreme Court dissolved the stays of execution it had issued earlier in the week in a sharply divided and much criticized 5-4 decision. Because the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction over criminal matters, Governor Fallin and others had accused the state's high court of initially overstepping its bounds. Now, the state has announced it will carry out the first double execution in over 75 years next week.
"This ruling (reversing the stay) shows that our legal system works," Fallin said of the high court's latest decision.
The state of Oklahoma is going to execute both ^ Warner and Lockett on April 29th. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is working on specifics and logistics of how the executions will be carried out, Fallin said. The state has not executed two inmates on the same day since convicted murderers Charlie Sands and Leon Siler were electrocuted on June 11, 1937.
"The defendants had their day in court. The court has made a decision. Two men that do not contest their guilt in heinous murders will now face justice, and the families and friends of their victims will now have closure." -- Governor Mary Fallin
On the other side, Seth Day, an attorney for Lockett and Warner, said that without knowing the source of the drugs, the public has no way of knowing whether the execution will be carried out in a "constitutional and humane manner."