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Politics
Scott Shackford

Oklahoma Pulls Back the Relentless Pace of Planned Executions

Oklahoma's attorney general has gotten permission from the courts to slow down and push back the state's intense schedule of executions, spacing them at least two months apart.

Last June, then-Attorney General John O'Connor arranged for 25 of the state's death row inmates (more than half of the total number of people in the state facing capital punishment) to be executed over the course of 29 months.

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