Execution dates set for Oklahoma inmates involved in Supreme Court case

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Oklahoma's criminal court has set the execution dates for the three death row inmates who challenged the use of a lethal injection drug, midazolam, in a recent Supreme Court case. The inmates wanted the court to put their executions on hold because of standing concerns about the humaneness of the lethal injection drug, which some say causes unnecessary suffering.

The Supreme Court, however, ruled 5-4 that the drug did not violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and now the inmates could receive that very drug in their own lethal injections, The Associated Press reports. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates of Sept. 16 for Richard Eugene Glossip, Oct. 7 for Benjamin Robert Cole, and Oct. 28 for John Marion Grant.

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