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Oklahoma's Scheduled Execution

By Steve Hall

"Wackerly execution won't be delayed in Oklahoma," is the title of Michael Baker's report in the Oklahoman. Attorneys reached an agreement Wednesday that clears the way for today's execution of an Oklahoma inmate who wanted his Buddhist spiritual adviser present during the lethal injection.Donald Ray Wackerly II is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.The agreement will allow the spiritual adviser to be in the death chamber moments after Wackerly's death.Wackerly, 41 was condemned to die for the 1996 murder of a Laotian fisherman. Pan Sayakhoummane was shot eight times and left in the Arkansas River.Wackerly had asked a federal judge to delay the execution so there could be further hearings on whether a prison rule barring spiritual advisers inside the death chamber is constitutional...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).