Parole board casts doubt on Oklahoma executions in another clemency decision

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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 connected Wednesday to urge clemency for decease enactment inmate Bigler Stouffer.

Stouffer is sentenced to decease for the 1985 execution of Putnam City teacher Linda Reaves and the shooting of Doug Ivens.

The committee recommended clemency connected Wednesday contempt acknowledging that Stouffer is not guiltless of the crimes he's been convicted of.

Board members expressed concerns implicit the state's decease punishment procedures aft the Oct. 28 execution of John Grant — the archetypal inmate killed by the authorities since lifting a moratorium connected executions related to botched procedures.

At Bigler Stouffer's clemency proceeding conscionable now, PPB subordinate Larry Morris said he's "dumbfounded" fixed what happened astatine Grant's execution that they're moving guardant with immoderate clemency hearings. "It leaves a batch of uncertainty successful my caput that we should beryllium doing theses things period."

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Grant convulsed and vomited portion receiving the lethal injection, but the authorities said the execution went according to plan.

Stouffer is the 2nd consecutive decease enactment inmate to get a clemency proposal pursuing Grant's death. Julius Jones, scheduled for execution connected Thursday, is awaiting a last determination connected his clemency from Gov. Kevin Stitt.

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