This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma death row inmate Bigler Stouffer asks Gov. He has filed his own lawsuit and is seeking an execution stay.
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More than 30 death row inmates are complaining in a lawsuit that a sedative used at the start of the process will expose them to excruciating pain in violation of their constitutional rights.Īn execution was set for Stouffer because he was not part of that legal challenge.
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But not if there’s an innocent question.”Īn Oklahoma City federal judge is going to rule on a legal challenge to the state’s lethal injection process after hearing from experts at a trial next year. “Nothing wrong with the state having the authority to take a life, that’s granted, even biblically. “This is not a righteous killing by any means,” Potts said of Stouffer’s impending execution. Howard Potts, spiritual adviser to Stouffer, said the death row inmate is faith-filled and is allowed to share the Christian gospel with other inmates facing execution. 28, execution of John Marion Grant, 60, media reports said Grant convulsed and vomited during the lethal injection procedure.īonowitz said about 10,000 signatures in support of Stouffer's clemency were submitted to Stitt's office. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board in November voted 3-2 to recommend clemency after a lengthy discussion about the state’s first execution in more than six years.įollowing the Oct. "I left them both for dead," he said, according to the testimony. He later told his girlfriend in a phone call that he was afraid she would go back to her husband and that he just went berserk, according to testimony. Prosecutors alleged the motive for the shooting was a $2 million life insurance policy and that Stouffer staged the crime scene to make it look like a murder-suicide by planting the gun in Reaves' hand before leaving. Ivens crawled to a phone, called 911 and identified Stouffer as the shooter. Photos of the family of James Williams, 46, who had been shooting celebratory gunfire into the air to ring in 2022 was shot him to death by a Canton Police officer firing through the family's. 357-caliber Magnum pistol, including one to the face. Howard Potts, speaking, and Stouffer's son, Trey Stouffer, background, deliver thousands of petition signatures asking Gov. Supporters of Bigler "Bud" Jobe Stouffer II, Stouffer's pastor, the Rev.