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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/23/why-the-supreme-court-is-acting-on-lethal-injection-and-what-that-could-mean-for-the-death-penalty/', 1)                         | The Supreme Court 's announcement Friday that it would consider lethal injection , potentially reshaping the way executions are carried out in the United States , comes just a week after the justices >>>declined to stop an execution<<< in Oklahoma .                                         |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/23/why-the-supreme-court-is-acting-on-lethal-injection-and-what-that-could-mean-for-the-death-penalty/', 7)                         | The court had originally been petitioned by four inmates , rather than three , but Charles Warner , the fourth inmate , was >>>put to death in Oklahoma<<< last week after the justices declined to stay the execution .                                                                          |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/23/why-the-supreme-court-is-acting-on-lethal-injection-and-what-that-could-mean-for-the-death-penalty/', 13)                        | ( Johnny Kormondy , who was convicted of killing a banker and raping his wife in 1993 , >>>was executed<<< at the Florida State Prison in Starke . )                                                                                                                                              |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/23/why-the-supreme-court-is-acting-on-lethal-injection-and-what-that-could-mean-for-the-death-penalty/', 39)                        | >>>In her dissent<<< , Justice Sonioa Sotomayor said that while she agrees that the four inmates asking for stays should be punished for their crimes , " the Eighth Amendment guarantees that no one should be subjected to an execution that causes searing , unnecessary pain before death . " |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/24/oklahoma-attorney-general-will-defend-states-lethal-injection-procedures/', 1)                                                   | Oklahoma >>>altered its lethal injection protocol<<< after a botched execution last April .                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/24/oklahoma-attorney-general-will-defend-states-lethal-injection-procedures/', 3)                                                   | It was used for the first time >>>last week<<< in the execution of Charles Warner , who was convicted of raping and murdering an 11-month-old .                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/18/florida-postpones-execution-until-supreme-court-rules-on-lethal-injection/', 8)                                                  | Oklahoma launched a review of its protocols and , last fall , adopted a new lethal injection method that >>>involved a higher dose of midazolam<<< — 500 milligrams , the same amount used in Florida executions since 2013 .                                                                     |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/18/florida-postpones-execution-until-supreme-court-rules-on-lethal-injection/', 9)                                                  | ( Last month , when Oklahoma carried out its first execution since the botched lethal injection , >>>it occurred the same night<<< that Florida carried out its first execution of the year . )                                                                                                   |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/18/why-the-u-s-wont-stop-executing-inmates-even-as-a-supreme-court-ruling-looms/', 29)                                              | Both of these executions , along with the lengthy lethal injection in Ohio last year , involved midazolam , >>>a drug questioned by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a dissent<<< the week before the Supreme Court said it would take the lethal injection case .                                      |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/18/why-the-u-s-wont-stop-executing-inmates-even-as-a-supreme-court-ruling-looms/', 47)                                              | The situation pointed to how divided the court is as well as a quirk of how the court operates : The four justices who dissented from a decision >>>allowing an Oklahoma execution to go forward<<< last month are the same four who would have stayed the Missouri execution .                   |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/10/texas-is-about-to-run-out-of-lethal-injection-drugs/', 40)                                                                       | This drug and Oklahoma 's protocol are now at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear next month , something the court agreed to take up after Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote >>>a dissent questioning the use of midazolam<<< in Oklahoma 's lethal injections .                         |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/20/alabama-judge-says-state-will-halt-executions-until-after-supreme-court-rules/', 21)                                             | After the botched execution of Lockett , Oklahoma adopted a new policy that still utilizes midazolam , but >>>ramps up the dosage<<< .                                                                                                                                                            |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/17/oklahoma-says-it-will-now-use-nitrogen-gas-as-its-backup-method-of-execution/', 56)                                              | Oklahoma adopted a new lethal injection policy last fall that kept the same three drugs it used during Lockett 's execution , but >>>it ratcheted up the dose of midazolam<<< .                                                                                                                   |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/17/oklahoma-says-it-will-now-use-nitrogen-gas-as-its-backup-method-of-execution/', 60)                                              | The U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution , but Justice Sonia Sotomayor >>>wrote a dissent<<< that specifically questioned whether midazolam could really " work as intended … given recent experience with the use of this drug . "                                                  |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/29/the-supreme-court-is-considering-lethal-injection-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-heres-why/', 36)                         | After the botched procedure last year , Oklahoma also changed its execution protocols , keeping midazolam but >>>ramping up the dose<<< to match the level used in Florida .                                                                                                                      |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/29/the-supreme-court-is-considering-lethal-injection-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-heres-why/', 40)                         | The justices >>>declined<<< to stay that execution when the court 's four justices who wanted the execution stayed were overruled .                                                                                                                                                               |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/29/what-the-supreme-courts-decision-on-lethal-injection-means-for-executions-in-the-u-s/', 40)                                      | The three surviving inmates named in the case were convicted of murder and sentenced to death , while the fourth >>>was executed in January<<< , shortly before the justices took the case .                                                                                                      |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/14/missouri-texas-plan-first-executions-since-supreme-court-ruling-on-lethal-injection/', 27)                                       | More than eight months later , Oklahoma resumed executions , putting Charles Warner — a man convicted of raping and murdering an infant — to death using >>>a larger doze of midazolam<<< .                                                                                                       |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/16/oklahoma-court-calls-off-execution-of-richard-glossip-hours-before-his-scheduled-lethal-injection/', 46)                         | In January , the inmate originally scheduled to die the same night as Lockett >>>was put to death<<< using this new formula .                                                                                                                                                                     |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/29/the-u-s-has-six-executions-scheduled-over-the-next-nine-days/', 134)                                                             | The other inmates who had joined Glossip and Cole in that challenge were Charles Warner , >>>who was executed in January<<< , and John Grant , who is scheduled to die on Oct. 28 .                                                                                                               |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/10/08/oklahoma-may-have-used-the-wrong-drug-to-execute-an-inmate-this-year/', 2)                                                       | Oklahoma may have used the wrong drug during >>>an execution in January<<< , just days before the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the state 's lethal-injection protocol , officials said Thursday .                                                                         |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/10/08/oklahoma-may-have-used-the-wrong-drug-to-execute-an-inmate-this-year/', 5)                                                       | After Oklahoma executed >>>Charles Warner in January<<< , an autopsy report said that his body and containers for lethal-injection drugs were delivered to the state 's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner .                                                                                    |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/10/08/oklahoma-may-have-used-the-wrong-drug-to-execute-an-inmate-this-year/', 47)                                                      | In January , he became the first — and , so far , only — >>>inmate executed using the state 's new protocol<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/10/23/florida-inmate-asks-to-be-executed-by-electric-chair-rather-than-lethal-injection/', 11)                                         | The first execution in Florida >>>since January<<< is scheduled to take place next week .                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/19/oklahoma-grand-jury-says-lethal-injection-process-muddled-by-inexcusable-failure/', 66)                                          | The justices decided to hear the case just days after >>>the January 2015 execution of Warner<<< that Oklahoma officials later said may have used the wrong drug .                                                                                                                                |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/11/07/voters-in-california-and-nebraska-will-decide-whether-they-want-to-keep-the-death-penalty/', 44)                                 | After that investigation , the state >>>resumed executions in January 2015<<< — only for authorities to admit that they actually used the wrong drug in that lethal injection and , months later , abruptly called off another execution because they almost used the wrong drug there .          |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/02/21/the-executions-justice-sotomayor-calls-horrifying-deaths/', 33)                                                                  | Oklahoma >>>resumed lethal injections eight months later<<< , though state officials would later admit that they used the wrong drug in the January 2015 execution and almost used an incorrect drug in another that year .                                                                       |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/07/with-lethal-injection-drugs-expiring-arkansas-plans-unprecedented-seven-executions-in-11-days/', 105)                            | The second execution was postponed , and when >>>it was carried out in January 2015<<< , Oklahoma officials used the wrong drug .                                                                                                                                                                 |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/24/arkansas-prepares-for-the-countrys-first-back-to-back-executions-in-almost-two-decades/', 108)                                   | ( The second execution scheduled for that night was delayed ; when >>>it was carried out<<< months later , Oklahoma officials used the wrong lethal injection drug .                                                                                                                              |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/14/oklahoma-says-it-will-begin-using-nitrogen-for-all-executions-in-an-unprecedented-move/', 27)                                    | Warner 's execution , which was scheduled to occur the same night as Lockett 's , was ultimately >>>postponed<<< until the following January .                                                                                                                                                    |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/23/the-botched-executions-that-make-people-think-lethal-injection-is-cruel-and-unusual/', 26)                                              | The state says it will now use >>>five times as much<<< of the sedative midazolam , which it used for the first time in Lockett 's execution last year .                                                                                                                                          |
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| ('washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-will-review-lethal-injection-drug-protocol-used-in-executions/2015/01/23/10841c10-a347-11e4-9f89-561284a573f8_story.html', 3) | It is the court 's first examination of lethal injection since 2008 and follows a decision last week by a majority of the court — over the objection of its four liberal members — to allow the >>>execution of Charles Frederick Warner in Oklahoma<<< .                                         |
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