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For One Day Next Week, This Will Be the Most Pro-Death Penalty State in the Country
FILE - In this Nov. 2005, file photo is the witness room that adjoins the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. An Associated Press survey of the nation's 32 death penalty states found that the vast majority refuse to disclose the source of their execution drugs. While Ohio has been open about drugs purchased for executions, those cloaked in secrecy include states with some of the most active death chambers _ Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and Missouri among them. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File

For One Day Next Week, This Will Be the Most Pro-Death Penalty State in the Country

It would be unusual to see two executions on the same day just in the entire United States.

AP

But that's what will happen on Tuesday — and they'll take place in the same state.

Oklahoma will execute two convicted murderers on the same day, the first time it's happened in the state in nearly 80 years, the Associated Press reported.

Clayton Derrell Lockett was convicted in 1999 in the fatal shooting of a woman. Charles Frederick Warner was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s baby daughter in 1997. The state's Supreme Court cleared a final hurdle on Wednesday for the execution to proceed.

“This ruling shows that our legal system works,” Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said in a statement. “The defendants had their day in court. The court has made a decision. Two men that do not contest their guilt in heinous murders will now face justice, and the families and friends of their victims will now have closure."

Lockett and Warner had challenged their executions on the grounds they needed information on the supplier of the execution drugs used in the lethal injection. The identity of the drug supplier is confidential under state law, according to the governor's office. The high court rejected the challenge.

The last time Oklahoma had a double execution was on June 11, 1937, when convicted murderers Charlie Sands and Leon Siler were electrocuted.

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Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas, the author of "Abuse of Power: Inside The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump," is a veteran White House correspondent who has reported for The Daily Signal, Fox News, TheBlaze, Newsmax, Stateline, Townhall, American History Quarterly, and other outlets. He can be reached at fvl2104@caa.columbia.edu.

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