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Oklahoma prison officials said Wednesday that they will allow an anti-death penalty minister with a history of protest-related arrests inside the execution chamber for Thursday's lethal injection of death-row inmate Scott Eizember.
Oklahoma executed death row inmate Scott Eizember Thursday morning at the state penitentiary in McAlester.
A lawsuit filed by a death row inmate’s spiritual adviser was dismissed after Oklahoma prison officials agreed to allow him into the execution chamber Thursday.
Eizember was convicted of the 2003 killings of 76-year-old A.J. Cantrell and 70-year-old Patsy Cantrell.
"I must say that 20 years is too long for justice to be served," the slain couple's nephew said in a statement read on behalf of the family.