Letter sent to lawyers regarding execution drugs

Lawyers for two Oklahoma death row inmates continue to argue over execution drugs.

Assistant Attorney General John Hadden sent a letter on Friday informing the lawyers of Charles Warner and Clayton Lockett that the state had received non-compounding vercuronium bromide.

The state says they now have manufactured drugs, and no drugs from a compounding pharmacy will be used in their clients execution.

Both inmates had sued the state over a "veil of secrecy" surrounding the state execution protocol.

Lockett is scheduled to be executed April 22, and Warner a week later.

The lawyers had filed an emergency request to stay their executions on Friday.  They say Warner and Lockett shouldn't be executed until the state complies with a March Oklahoma District Court ruling requiring them to disclose the origins of the drugs to be used in their executions.