Oklahoma governor halts executions set for next week

9 February 2012, 3:00 pm

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla (Reuters) - Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin granted a 30-day stay of execution on Thursday to a convicted murderer scheduled to be put to death next week so that state attorneys could study whether he should be granted clemency. Garry Thomas Allen, scheduled for lethal injection on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 1986 shooting death of his estranged ...... Read More »

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