A federal judge granted Steven Oken a stay of execution today based on a need to examine the lethal injection procedures that would be used to kill him. The court cited Maryland's failure to provide Oken with the details of the execution procedures until this past Friday (Oken was scheduled to be executed sometime this week at an unpublished time). Oken's lawyers have questioned the ability of the first chemical administered, a barbituate, to numb him to the pain inflicted when the second two drugs are administered.
CNN.com - Stay given to inmate questioning lethal injection procedures
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