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By Steve Hall

"Oklahoma attorney general seeks lift of execution stay," is the title of an AP report via the Tulsa World. Attorney General Drew Edmondson has asked a federal judge to lift a stay of execution in the case of convicted killer Jeffrey David Matthews.U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot stayed Matthews' Aug. 17 execution after the Department of Corrections altered the drugs used in the execution process due to a nationwide shortage of the anesthetic, sodium thiopental.In a motion filed Wednesday, state officials say DOC has acquired enough sodium thiopental to proceed with the execution without changing its existing lethal injection protocol.If the stay is lifted, Edmondson will ask the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set a new execution date...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).