OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers for two Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to die next week want the state attorney general’s office to reveal the drugs to be used in the executions.
Lawyers for Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner sent a letter Friday requesting that the office comply with a state Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that says the secrecy statute regarding the execution process applies only to “the identity of certain persons, not the identity of the drug or drugs to be used in executions.”
The lawyers say that means they must have information to identify the drugs and verify they are what the attorney general’s office has represented them to be, that they are unadulterated, uncontaminated, unexpired and legally obtained.
A spokeswoman for the attorney general said the letter is being reviewed.
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