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    Oklahoma AG asking for delay in executions

    By K. Querry-Thompson
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    Just days after taking office, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a motion to delay several executions in the state.

    Drummond filed a motion with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, requesting that seven impending executions be conducted with more time between each event.

    He says the current schedule is putting pressure on understaffed DOC employees.

    “I was honored to spend time with these outstanding men and women who work every month to carry out the State’s highest punishment and deliver justice to the families of victims,” Drummond said. “I observed their respect for the solemnity of their duty. I saw their regard for the family and loved ones of victims. Oklahoma is fortunate to have dedicated public servants who are willing to train for and carry out a task of such gravity.”

    Oklahoma has had four executions over nearly five months and 21 others are pending.

    “As is to be expected, DOC leadership and personnel have continuously sought to learn and improve during the process,” states the Jan. 17 filing. “One aspect that has become clear over time is that the current pace of executions is unsustainable in the long run, as it is unduly burdening the DOC and its personnel. This is especially true given the extensive and intensive nature of the training DOC personnel undergo to prepare for each execution.”

    If granted, the request would delay the executions for Richard Glossip, Jermaine Cannon, Anthony Sanchez, Phillip Hancock, James Ryder, Michael Smith, and Wade Lay.

    The executions would be pushed back by 60 days.

    Before filing the motion, Drummond says he visited with family members of the victims of the inmates to explain the reason for the request.

    “I do not take lightly this request,” Drummond said. “These families have waited many years to see justice done, and I am grateful for their understanding in this matter.

    https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-ag-as...in-executions/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Execution date rescheduled for February 1, 2024.

    https://documents.deathpenaltyinfo.o...2023-01-24.pdf

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    State requests new execution date for Pittsburg County man

    By Derrick James
    McAlesterNews

    A competency hearing for a Pittsburg County man scheduled to be executed in February 2024 was continued to March 2024, prompting requests to reschedule and replace the date with another death row inmate.

    James Chandler Ryder, 61, was sentenced to death for the 1999 death of Daisy Hallum and to life in prison without parole for the 1999 death of Sam Hallum.

    Court records and previous News-Capital articles report the Hallums were found dead at their property on April 9, 1999, with investigators believing a shotgun was used in Sam Hallum’s death and that Daisy Hallum was bludgeoned to death.

    Ryder, from Pittsburg County, was accused in their deaths following a dispute in Longtown. He reportedly lived on the Hallum property for some time before the killings.

    Defense attorneys asked a Pittsburg County judge in October 2022 to conduct an evidentiary hearing into the competency of Ryder and order then-Oklahoma State Penitentiary Warden Jim Farris to call to attention to the district attorney of Pittsburg County that Ryder is “insane” and competency proceedings should commence.

    The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office filed a petition in December 2022 to inquire into Ryder’s competency with a Pittsburg County judge placing the matter onto the January 2024 jury docket.

    A request to continue the January 2024 trial was granted and moved to the March 2024 docket, a month after Ryder’s Feb. 1, 2024 scheduled execution date.

    “Accordingly, the state cannot carry out Ryder’s execution of Feb. 1, 2024,” an attorney for the Oklahoma AG’s Office wrote in its request to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appelas.

    The motion asks OCCA to set a new execution date for Ryder “so that a date is on the calendar should he be found competent at the March 2024 trial.”

    Attorneys argue Ryder suffers from severe, diagnosed mental illnesses dating back to 2000 with numerous psychologists and experts ruling the man incompetent through the years with the latest diagnosis in August 2022. Nearly 200 pages of documentation was filed by Ryder’s attorneys containing notes and other documents from psychologists who have seen Ryder.

    Following an August 2022 exam, Barry M. Crown, Ph. D, wrote Ryder “evidences the signs of a major mental illness.”

    “He is emaciated and disheveled with pressured speech and cognitive problems with concentration, attention, memory and executive functions,” Crown wrote. “He expresses disorganized and unfocused responses with loose associations and delusional fixations.”

    Crown said his clinical opinion was Ryder “is presently unable to demonstrate a rational understanding of the fact they he will be executed” and diagnosed Ryder with Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorder.

    “In terms familiar to the law, Mr. Ryder is insane,” Crown wrote. “His mental power has been wholly obliterated. He is unable to comprehend or process, in any fashion, the reason he is to be executed and that the execution is imminent.”

    The Oklahoma AG’s Office is also asking OCCA to “schedule another execution on Feb. 1, 2024” and provided a list of death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals with 13 of the inmates not having a currently scheduled execution date.

    A ruling from OCCA was not available as of Friday.

    https://www.mcalesternews.com/news/s...9d79c5d7d.html
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    Why did Cole get executed while everyone else who cries about insanity gets a stay?
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    Actually, he did not get a stay. Ryder had a competency trial scheduled in January 2024. Recently, that trial has been rescheduled to March 2024, leaving a door open for an eventual stay request.

    Instead, what Drummond did has been a wise move: they will reschedule Ryder execution after the trial, and they will use the free date for another inmate.
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    Ok, let me rephrase. Why does Cole go with no delay while every other inmate who claims insanity gets a competency hearing?
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    Because Oklahomans decided to get rid of one of the best Attorney Generals in the country and replace him with Drummond.

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    True, but let's not forget Wade Lay was granted a competency hearing while O'Connor was still AG.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    OCCA sets argument in request for new execution date

    Judges from the state's highest court are seeking answers on why a competency trial for an Oklahoma death row inmate was continued to a date past his scheduled execution date.

    The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has scheduled a show case hearing to hear arguments on why the January competency trial date was continued to March, a month after Ryder's Feb. 1, 2024, execution date.

    James Chandler Ryder, 61, was sentenced to death for the 1999 death of Daisy Hallum and to life in prison without parole for the 1999 death of Sam Hallum.

    Court records and previous News-Capital articles report the Hallums were found dead at their property on April 9, 1999, with investigators believing a shotgun was used in Sam Hallum's death and that Daisy Hallum was bludgeoned to death.

    Ryder, from Pittsburg County, was accused in their deaths following a dispute in Longtown. He reportedly lived on the Hallum property for some time before the killings.

    Defense attorneys asked a Pittsburg County judge in October 2022 to conduct an evidentiary hearing into the competency of Ryder and order then-Oklahoma State Penitentiary Warden Jim Farris to call to attention to the district attorney of Pittsburg County that Ryder is "insane" and competency proceedings should commence.

    The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office filed a petition in December 2022 to inquire into Ryder's competency with a Pittsburg County judge placing the matter onto the January 2024 jury docket.

    A request to continue the January 2024 trial was granted and moved to the March 2024 docket, a month after Ryder's Feb. 1, 2024 scheduled execution date.

    "Accordingly, the state cannot carry out Ryder's execution of Feb. 1, 2024," an attorney for the Oklahoma AG's Office wrote in its request to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

    The motion asks OCCA to set a new execution date for Ryder "so that a date is on the calendar should he be found competent at the March 2024 trial."

    OCCA ordered District 18 District Judge Mike Hogan to respond to questions about his decision to continue the hearing past Ryder's execution date.

    Questions included was there good cause, why the trial was not scheduled in a timely manner so it would conclude before February, what circumstances precluded the setting of the trial before February and any additional facts and legal authority that justify the continuance.

    Hogan's response is not public but was filed prior to the 10-day deadline imposed by OCCA.

    OCCA has ordered attorneys from the Oklahoma AG's Office and from Ryder's defense team to appear before the court on Nov. 21 at 10:30 a.m. to answer questions.

    The order states both sides will have 30 minutes for argument.

    https://news.yahoo.com/occa-sets-arg...163300767.html
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    Oklahoma death row inmate James Ryder's execution delayed at least 100 days for competency hearing

    James Ryder was sentenced to death for his role in the 1999 murders of a mother and son in Pittsburg County over a property dispute

    By Cameron Sibert
    KOCO News

    OKLAHOMA CITY — A court has scheduled a hearing to determine the competency of Oklahoma death row inmate James Ryder.

    The hearing was announced less than a month before Ryder was scheduled to be executed. Now, it will be delayed by at least 100 days.

    Ryder's attorneys have created enough doubt to be granted a competency hearing and are getting ready to argue that he is not mentally stable enough to be executed.

    Ryder was sentenced to death for his role in the 1999 murders of a mother and son in Pittsburg County over a property dispute.

    His attorneys say several psychologists have diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia and concluded that he's not competent. Under Oklahoma law, an inmate is not mentally competent if they cannot understand the reason they are being executed and cannot understand that the execution is imminent.

    Many Oklahomans continue to oppose the death penalty altogether.

    "They will still be behind bars for the rest of their life, but the state won't be in the business of killing people," Don Heath, with the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, said.

    Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond says he's not against a competency hearing and that his office plans to present evidence showing Ryder is competent for execution.

    A Pittsburg County judge will host a hearing with Ryder's attorneys to determine if he is competent. Ryder's execution was initially scheduled for Feb. 1.

    https://www.koco.com/article/oklahom...aring/46283483
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