That inmate, convicted murderer and rapist Charles Warner, had also been also scheduled for execution on Tuesday night, but was granted a 14-day stay after the botched execution of Lockett.
The executions of Lockett and Warner, convicted in separate crimes, had been put on hold for several weeks because of a legal fight over the state’s new lethal injection cocktail, with lawyers arguing Oklahoma was withholding crucial information about the drugs to be used.
Attorneys for death row inmates have argued that the drugs used in Oklahoma and other states could cause an unnecessarily painful death, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
(Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Mohammad Zargham)
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