OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of clergy leaders and civil libertarians are making a last-minute plea to Gov. Mary Fallin to halt the scheduled execution of an Oklahoma City man for killing a baby in 1997.
Holding signs that read: "Don't Kill for Me," members of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and other human rights advocates on Thursday urged the governor to stop the execution of Charles Warner. Warner is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
Former state Sen. Connie Johnson said holding an execution on the day of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth was "cruelly ironic."
The group plans to hold a protest outside the governor's mansion, followed by a vigil at the approximate time of Warner's death.