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Oklahoma Execution Stayed Due to Drug Switch; Texas Executes

By Steve Hall

"Judge stays Oklahoma man's execution for 3rd time," is the AP report via Google News.An Oklahoma death row inmate's execution was stayed for the third time in less than three months Tuesday, after his defense attorneys objected to plans to substitute a drug in his lethal injection.U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot issued the stay just hours before Jeffrey David Matthews, 38, was set to be executed for the murder of his 77-year-old great-uncle, Otis Earl Short, during a 1994 robbery of Short's home.Friot stayed the execution after defense attorneys protested Department of Corrections plans to substitute the first of three drugs used in the lethal injection process, said Charlie Price, spokesman for Attorney General Drew Edmondson's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).