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Both executions on Sunday were carried out at the local prison, the news agency said, after the sentences were approved by the Supreme Court.
Both executions, of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, were to be carried out by midnight, and, as the Fordham law professor and death-penalty expert Deborah Denno told the Los Angeles Times, "The world was watching".
State courts had stayed both executions over concerns about the process, but rescinded the ruling after Ms Fallin objected.
The foreign ministry summoned the Saudi ambassador to Indonesia after both executions, complaining Jakarta had not been informed beforehand.
On Wednesday this week a federal judge in Houston issued a temporary injunction halting both executions until lawyers for the men had been provided with information about the procurement and quality of the drugs.
The Chinese authorities also handed down at least 7,003 new death sentences last year, although the report said the true total of both executions and death sentences "remains shrouded in secrecy".
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