Opinion

Bland v. State

  • 164 P.3d 1076
  • 2007 OK CR 25
  • 2007 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 24
  • 2007 WL 1836851
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Jun 22, 2007
Status
Published
Author
Johnson
On the bench
Lumpkin, Viee-Presiding, Johnson, Chapel, Lewis
Cited by
0 cases

The opinion

C. JOHNSON, Viee-Presiding Judge,

Specially Concurring.

T1 I concur in the result reached by the majority. I write separately to emphasize that Petitioner has not presented any controlling or persuasive legal precedent to support his claim that the execution of a terminally-ill prisoner constitutes cruel or unusual punishment. In my view, Petitioner's situation does not present a legal basis for invalidating his death sentence. Rather, these kinds of cireumstances are more properly considered in the realm of executive clemency.

T2 I am authorized to state that Judge Arlene Johnson joins in this Special Coneur-rence.

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