July 8
OKLAHOMA----new execution date
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals sets execution date for death row inmate
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set a September execution date for a
death row inmate who had challenged a drug that will be used in his lethal
injection.
The court on Wednesday set a Sept. 16 execution date for 52-year-old Richard
Eugene Glossip.
Glossip was 1 of 3 death row inmates who argued that the sedative midazolam
that the state plans to use to execute him presents an unconstitutional risk of
pain and suffering because it doesn't properly render a person unconscious. The
U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month in a 5-4 decision that the drug can be
used.
Glossip was convicted of 1st-degree murder in the 1997 beating death of Barry
Alan Van Treese at a west Oklahoma City motel.
(source: Associated Press)
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