Oklahoma inmate Wade Lay's execution delayed for jury to determine competency

By: Ryan Love

TULSA, Okla. — A Pittsburg County territory justice ruled successful favour of staying the execution of Oklahoma decease enactment inmate Wade Lay connected Monday.

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

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The justice granted the enactment to let clip for a assemblage to find whether oregon not Lay is competent to beryllium executed. His execution had been scheduled for Jan. 6.

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