oklahoma supreme court s own website. unlike most states, oklahoma has two courts of last resort. the supreme court determines all issues of a civil nature and the oklahoma court of criminal appeals decides all criminal matters. and this week that rare oklahoma system, those two courts of last resort created a lot of confusion for the fate of these two men. clayton locket and charles warner. both are death row inmates scheduled for execution and both of these men requested a delay of those executions in part of over where their execution drugs came from. the appeal first went to the state supreme court, which basically said this isn t our thing and transferred the request over to the court of criminal appeals. the inmates pending case about drug secrecy is a civil case with the supreme court, not a criminal case in our court. so a few days later the state s
administered. a serial killer in one state gets life, in another state they get death. it rarely brings about the closure that victims families want. they want a sense of justice and closure, but rarely receive it. it doesn t deter crime at all. killers don t think of the death penalty before they kill. it doesn t have any deterrent value at all. on this specific issue of drug secrecy, how would you argue it, if you had a client right now facing this? well, i would argue that first of all, there is a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. it s a congress stugs al principle. it pervades our history. you cannot just decide you re going to execute someone with a secret drug from a secret pharmacy with a secret compounding process with secret ingredients. that is absolutely unconstitutional. they should not execute anyone in that situation. lisa, the oklahoma s attorneys argued, to date no certifications, testing data, medical opinions or any other