OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers for two Oklahoma death row inmates are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a stay of execution.
Attorneys for Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner filed an appeal Tuesday to the state's highest court after an Oklahoma County District judge on Monday denied their request to halt the executions that are scheduled for later this month.
Lockett and Warner are asking for the stay while they sue the state Department of Corrections over a law that prohibits disclosure of the drugs used in the state's execution procedures.
Lockett is scheduled to die March 20 and Warner on March 27. They are not challenging their convictions but are asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent their executions until they know more about the lethal injection drugs to be used.