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Attorney General Gentner Drummond has asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to allow more time to be conducted between seven impending executions.

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Oklahoma’s new attorney general filed a motion requesting the state appellate court set more time between executions to reduce burden on prison staff.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma's current schedule of executing a death row inmate roughly every 30 days is placing too much of a burden on prison staff

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's current schedule of executing a death row inmate roughly every 30 days is placing too much of a burden on prison staff and should be slowed down, the state's new attorney general wrote in a motion filed Wednesday with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

  “To be absent from the body is to be present with God.”   Scott Eizember’s final days were filled with talk of what was to come.  While we

  “This way!”  From the point that I arrived at Oklahoma State Penitentiary to the moment I left, I was surrounded by officers.  For someone aware of

Eizember spent his final days fighting the state over his right to have a spiritual adviser present in the death chamber.

This case is causing many people to ask whether the wait time between sentencing and execution is too long.

McALESTER, Oklahoma — Family members of an elderly Oklahoma couple slain in 2003 said the execution of their killer ended a nearly 20-year nightmare.