Oklahoma AG says state moving forward with execution plans
Source: Associated Press
Sean Murphy, Associated Press Updated 4:52 pm, Wednesday, April 26, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a unanimous recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a moratorium on the death penalty remain in place, the state's new attorney general said Wednesday.
Republican Mike Hunter said while he respects the independent work of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission , he "respectfully disagrees" with the panel's findings.
"We're going to get a handle on the execution process," Hunter said. "There's new management at the (Department of Corrections), and I'm confident they're going to come up with a new execution protocol and that we'll move forward after that."
The 11-member commission, led by former Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry, released a nearly 300-page report on Tuesday that had more than 40 recommendations related to the death penalty, including several on the execution process itself. The panel suggested those recommendations should be implemented before executions resume.
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