The proposed change would incorporate the protections into Oklahoma Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
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Chicken-Fried News: A better way to kill
Oklahoma lawmakers are researching and debating alternative ways of doling out capital punishment.
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Botched execution creates new chapter in capital punishment debate
The botched execution of Clayton Lockett has reopened the debate over capital punishment. However, many of the state’s leaders say its a practice that is here to stay.
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Capital sentence for pedophiles
We could show the world that we really do care about children in Oklahoma, since we have never done that before. —Jeannie Yarger, Edmond
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Capital punishment conundrum
Brad Gregg As of this writing, only one dose remains of a drug used to execute death row inmates, of which Oklahoma currently has 64. Pentobarbital, a sedative, is the first drug administered in the three-step lethal injection process. Its manufacturers have stopped selling pentobarbital to prison systems. Now Oklahoma has itself in a pickle: […]