OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma executed a death row inmate Thursday for killing a baby in 1997 in the state's first lethal injection since a botched one last spring.
Prison officials declared Charles Frederick Warner, who was convicted of killing and raping his roommate's infant daughter in Oklahoma City, dead at 7:28 p.m. CT Thursday. It was the second time Oklahoma used the sedative midazolam as part of a three-drug method, which had been challenged by Warner and other death row inmates as presenting an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering.
The execution came after a divided U.S. Supreme Court said it wouldn't consider whether a sedative given to the inmate would be strong enough to render him so unconscious that he wouldn't feel other drugs stop his lungs and heart. Read more...
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