Oklahoma’s third and fourth executions of the year will be carried out tomorrow.
"We have two inmates scheduled," said Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie. "The first execution will take place at 6 p.m., and the second one is scheduled to take place at 8 p.m."
Charles Lockett and Clayton Warner have had their executions delayed after suing the state over a law that keeps secret the source of drugs used for lethal injections, but the state Supreme Court lifted its stay last week. The first state inmate executed this year said he felt his whole body burning after the drugs were injected.
Lockett and Warner’s fight to show the law is unconstitutional caused confusion among Oklahoma’s courts and prompted a House resolution for five supreme court justices’ impeachment. Massie says one more legal move can’t be ruled out.
"There's some possibility for further court action," Massie said. "I think the last court action was the Court of Criminal Appeals turning something down on Friday, so I guess there's a possibility of them appealing that decision."
Lockett and Warner will be the 194th and 195th people executed by the state since 1915 and the 111th and 112th executed since Oklahoma reinstated capital punishment in 1990.
Executions prior to 1990 were carried out through electrocution. One man convicted of federal kidnapping was hanged in 1936.