OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s attorney general has agreed to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate scheduled to die next week while an investigation is conducted into last week’s botched lethal injection.
In a filing Thursday with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office said it will not object to a 180-day stay of execution while the investigation is underway.
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