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Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
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The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.
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For the fifth time in 2022 and just the seventh time in nearly eight years, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate.
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For the fourth time in 2022, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate. Benjamin Robert Cole Sr. was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:22 a.m. this morning. He was 57.
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Death row inmates failed to convince a federal judge that Oklahoma's lethal injection method is cruel and unusual punishment. It will resume executions at a pace of about one a month through 2024.
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For the third time in 2022, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate. James Allen Coddington was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:16 a.m. this morning. He was 50.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses Gov. Kevin Stitt pulling political ads featuring current Attorney General John O'Connor after ethical and legal questions from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and a federal judge ruling Oklahoma's three-drug execution protocol as constitutional.
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Attorneys for Oklahoma death row inmates are fighting a legal challenge against the state's controversial three-drug lethal injection protocol. A district court ruled it constitutional on Monday.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the trial over Oklahoma's execution protocol coming to an end and a challenge against the special election to fill the seat getting vacated by U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe.