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Kelly Renee Gissendaner became the first woman to be executed in Georgia in 70 years.

But Ms. Fallin said in a statement late Wednesday that her order will give the Department of Corrections time to review whether the use of another drug, potassium acetate, “is compliant with the state’s court-approved execution procedures”.

The similarities between the drugs raises the question of whether the state simply couldn’t obtain potassium chloride, which is part of its protocol, and substituted potassium acetate.

When asked if he trusted the Department of Corrections to fully investigate the drug mixup, Baich said he had no comment.

Glossip was sentenced to death in 2004 and was scheduled to receive a three-drug execution cocktail at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. That said, as much as this is evidence of the state’s incompetence, we are grateful Oklahoma has stepped away from the error, avoiding another potentially botched execution. The corrections department had said it was prepared to go forward with Glossip’s execution earlier Wednesday but all came to a halt by mid-afternoon. However, the most sobering and important duty for the state is to carry out the punishment of death. She is not affiliated with any anti-death penalty organizations, she said, “I’m just a Christian”. “Minutes before the execution is supposed to start, that’s when they realize they don’t have the right drugs?” His archbishop encouraged her to act to commute the sentence and had written to her, but she said she failed to possess the power to do this.

Glossip, who has long maintained his innocence, was set to die for the 1997 killing of an Oklahoma City motel owner.

Glossip’s lawyers had tried to submit a statement from a prison inmate who said he heard his former colleague boast about implicating him in the murder of Barry Van Treese. But on Monday, the judge rejected Glossip’s appeal.

Glossip’s attorneys say Sneed is lying and point out that in the interview he made a new claim which he had never raised before, to explain why there was no physical evidence linking Glossip to the crime. Besides claiming hes innocent, Glossip also has challenged the states three-drug execution protocol.

A native of El Salvador, he was convicted in 2010 in the 1988 fatal shooting of a young couple, Rachael Raver and Warren Fulton in Reston, Va.

The 52-year-old has been on death row since 1998. “He has now had multiple trials, seventeen years of appeals, and three stays of his execution”.

Glossip said he’s now been returned to his normal cell on death row. 7 for the 2002 killing of his 9-month-old daughter despite his attorneys’ claims that he is insane and ineligible for the death penalty. “Second, the District Court did not establish that Oklahoma’s use of a massive dose of midazolam in its execution protocol entails a substantial risk of severe pain”. Edwards’ execution is scheduled for October 6.

Glossip’s attorneys have argued that he was improperly sentenced and should have another hearing to prove his innocence.

Patton took over as head of corrections in January 2014.

It’s been a big week for the US death penalty.

They also argued there were issues with medical examiner testimony about when the victim died of his injuries.

‘Today’s hastily abandoned plans show what happens when states carry out executions in secrecy with unqualified execution team members and no public oversight.

Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office received word of the drug mix-up “shortly before” Glossip’s scheduled execution Wednesday and advised that Oklahoma’s lethal injection guidelines, which had been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, had to be followed, said Pruitt spokesman Aaron Cooper.

Cole admitted to police that he caused the fatal injuries. His execution is scheduled for October 7.