This photo combo of images provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett, left, and Charles Warner. Lockett and Warner, two death-row inmates who want to know the source of drugs that will be used to execute them, have placed Oklahoma’s two highest courts at odds and prompted aggravated members of the Legislature to call for the impeachment of Oklahoma Supreme Court justices. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections)
April 23, 2014 - 12:49 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY - A member of the Oklahoma legislature is drafting a resolution seeking the impeachment of state Supreme Court justices who granted a delay of execution to two death-row inmates.
Republican state Rep. Mike Christian told The Associated Press on Wednesday that five justices engaged in a "wilful neglect of duty."
Inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner were scheduled to die this month. They filed a lawsuit in civil court challenging secrecy surrounding execution drugs. They did not challenge their convictions.
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