Md. Executes Killer
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From Associated Press
BALTIMORE — A triple murderer was put to death by injection Thursday after a week of appeals in which his lawyers claimed the execution method was potentially painful and therefore unconstitutionally cruel.
Lower courts had agreed to stay Steven Oken’s execution to determine whether a barbiturate used in the execution might not keep the inmate from feeling pain, but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision Wednesday.
Oken was executed at 9:18 p.m. EDT, a Maryland prison spokeswoman said.
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