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Even after that horribly botched failed execution, the state wants to continue putting people to death, starting next week.

For her part, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) ordered a two-week delay of an execution the state had also scheduled for Tuesday and demanded an investigation into what went wrong.

Has he identified a feasible and readily im-plemented alternative method of execution the State refused to adopt without a legitimate reason, even though it would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe pain?

Mr. Buck's lawyers had argued that his death sentence was based, at least in part, on his race, and that in carrying out his execution, the state would violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, which prohibits discrimination by state governments.

Dr. Dershwitz said that soon after the botched execution, the state asked him to prepare a declaration it could file in court if it needed explaining how the injection of the chemicals muscularly would work and verifying that it would be painless.

An Associated Press reporter based in Houston, Mr. Graczyk covers death penalty cases in Texas, the state that uses capital punishment far more than any other, and since the 1980s, he has attended nearly every execution the state has carried out — he has lost track of the precise count.

Despite another high-profile, problematic execution, the states that carry out the most executions told The Washington Post that they did not plan to change anything.

More than a decade after Utah largely moved away from firing squads for executions, the state on Monday officially reversed course and made that the backup method of execution.

Even amid the legal tumult, the Arkansas Department of Correction had plowed ahead, saying it was continuing to prepare for the executions — the state's first since 2005 — while awaiting the appeals pending in various courts.

Arkansas is having trouble recruiting witnesses for the death row executions the state has slated for a 10-day period next month, so it's looking to rotary clubs for potential enlistees.

Flynt campaigned to halt the execution, suing the state and demanding to unseal documents that would reveal their secretive execution process.