As many as 10 death row inmates in Oklahoma, more than one-fifth of the state’s prisoners condemned to die, could escape execution because of a recent U.S.
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