





The executions of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, which will go forward barring any extraordinary legal intervention, will also put an end—for now—to a "constitutional crisis" in Oklahoma that found the Republican governor and state Supreme Court locked in an unprecedented legal showdown concerning the secrecy of its supply of lethal-injection drugs.



The carousel of heated back-and-forth litigation culminated last week with dueling orders from Gov. Mary Fallin and the Oklahoma Supreme Court. A day after the court ruled to stay the executions indefinitely, Fallin issued a temporary, seven-day stay on Lockett's execution, which had been scheduled for April 22. Fallin's order, which was a de facto override of the court's decision, drew scrutiny from legal experts, prompting some to declare the state was mired in a constitutional crisis.



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Oklahoma will carry out two executions just hours apart Tuesday evening, marking the first time since Texas in 2000 that a state has put two death-row inmates to death in the same day.The executions of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, which will go forward barring any extraordinary legal intervention, will also put an end—for now—to a "constitutional crisis" in Oklahoma that found the Republican governor and state Supreme Court locked in an unprecedented legal showdown concerning the secrecy of its supply of lethal-injection drugs.The carousel of heated back-and-forth litigation culminated last week with dueling orders from Gov. Mary Fallin and the Oklahoma Supreme Court. A day after the court ruled to stay the executions indefinitely, Fallin issued a temporary, seven-day stay on Lockett's execution, which had been scheduled for April 22. Fallin's order, which was a de facto override of the court's decision, drew scrutiny from legal experts, prompting some to declare the state was mired in a constitutional crisis.