A Look At Oklahoma's Execution Drug Secrecy Case

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled late Wednesday that death row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them. The inmates, whose executions are scheduled for March, file a civil lawsuit against the state seeking details about the drugs that will be used to execute them, including their source. The Court of Criminal Appeals reschedules both executions because the Department of Corrections doesn't have enough drugs to carry out death sentences. Parrish rules that a "veil of secrecy" preventing the inmates from seeking information about the drugs violates their constitutional rights. The Court of Criminal Appeals says that without an action pending in that court directly challenging the convictions or death sentences, it is "is without authority to issue stays of execution in this matter." April 23: A member of the Republican-controlled Legislature orders that articles of impeachment be drafted for the five state Supreme Court justices who agreed to halt the executions. Later in the day, the state Supreme Court rules that the death row inmates are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them and lifts its stay.

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