Edmondson asks court to stop scheduling executions
Attorney General Drew Edmondson asked the Court of Criminal Appeals today to stop scheduling executions until the U.S. Supreme Court settles the issue of what is cruel and unusual punishment.
The Supreme Court is going to hear an appeal of a Kentucky death-row inmate who has claimed his state's execution process violates the federal constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Oklahoma , like Kentucky, u...
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