Oklahoma death row inmate wants Buddhist adviser in death chamber
An Oklahoma inmate asked Tuesday to delay his execution this week so a federal judge can decide if the prisoner's Buddhist spiritual adviser can be in the death chamber during the lethal injection.
Donald Ray Wackerly II is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester .
Wackerly, 41, was sentenced to die for the 1996 murder of a Laotian fisherman. Pan Sayakhoummane was s...
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