"Oklahoma executes second inmate with controversial drug," is the AFP report, via GlobalPost.
The US state of Oklahoma executed a second inmate Thursday by administering a new drug that has sparked controversy over suffering the condemned may suffer while dying.
Kenneth Hogan, 52, was put to death in the southwestern state. He was declared dead at 6:30 (0030 GMT Friday) at McAlester prison, spokesman Jerry Massie told AFP.
Hogan received a mix of drugs that included a lethal dose of pentobarbital, an anesthetic commonly used to euthanize animals that the state acquired from a compounding pharmacy unregulated at the federal level.
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Hogan, who had spent 27 years on death row, also reacted to the chemicals in his final moments.
"There is a chemical taste in my mouth," he said after receiving the injection.
"Killer executed in 1988 Oklahoma City fatal stabbing," is the AP report, via the Tulsa World. It's also available from HuffPost.
An Oklahoma man who was convicted of stabbing a close friend to death more than a quarter-century ago was executed Thursday.
Kenneth Eugene Hogan, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after he received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
"Attorney Claims Oklahoma’s Execution Drug 'Excruciatingly Painful'," is the KFOR-TV report by Ed Doney.
Officials in McAlester are injecting Hogan with the execution drug “pentobarbital.”
The drug is at the center of a controversial fire storm – one attorney argues it’s a cruel method for death row inmates.The controversy began when a death row inmate uttered surprising last words.
Earlier this month, after convicted murderer Michael Wilson was given a lethal injection of pentobarbital, he reportedly said he felt his “whole body burning.”
Now an attorney for a Missouri death row inmate wants that drug recalled – it’s scheduled to be used on her client next week.
Cheryl Pilate with Morgan Pilate LLC in Kansas City has filed a complaint with the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy.
It says the pentobarbital that was made at a compounding pharmacy in Oklahoma and sent to the Missouri Department of Corrections “…is being improperly stored at room temperature for at least 15 days prior to its intended use.”
It says “…recent evidence shows that the compounded pentobarbital is expired” and adds “these hazards create the danger that an execution carried out with the drug will be excruciatingly painful.”
Duing Oklahoma's first execution this year, Michael Lee Wilson said, "I feel my whole body burning."
It was Oklahoma's second execution of 2014, and the state's 110th post-Furman execution.
There have been five executions by American death penalty states this year; a total of 1,364 post-Furman executions since 1977.
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