Oklahoma has scheduled Glossip for death nine times since 2015. With just weeks remaining before his scheduled execution, he’s relying on an unlikely ally to save his life – Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
Covering the death penalty is difficult, and often ugly, but it’s a responsibility I take seriously.
The unit would fall under the state’s Pardon and Parole Board, and the bill comes less than a year after Attorney General Mike Hunter ruled the board could review commutation requests filed by inmates on Oklahoma’s Death Row.
Jones’ supporters are trying to save him from death row, attempts the Oklahoma Attorney General believes are sincere but misguided.
After more than a five-year hiatus following a series of high-profile mistakes, Oklahoma is set to return to lethal injection when executions resume, possibly as soon as late 2020.
Oklahoma must turn over its execution training protocol by June 5, a federal judge ruled this week.
AG Mike Hunter told about two dozen district attorneys on Thursday he is prepared to fight federal court challenges to the death penalty.
Oklahoma plans to use the same drug combination when it resumes the death penalty as it did in the troubled executions of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, and the near execution in 2016 of Richard Glossip.
