Execution date removed for Oklahoma inmate Wade Lay

TULSA, Okla. — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections removed the execution day for decease enactment inmate Wade Lay connected Tuesday.

Lay's execution had been scheduled for Jan. 6.

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He is sentenced to decease for the 2004 shooting decease of information defender Kenneth Anderson during an attempted slope robbery successful Tulsa.

A justice granted a enactment for Lay's execution connected Dec. 6 aft determining the request for a assemblage to determine if Lay is competent to beryllium executed.

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The removal of the acceptable day canceled the 35-day reflection process for Lay that decease enactment inmates spell done anterior to their executions.

When a caller day is set, that reflection process would restart.

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