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Oklahoma to delay inmate's execution
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Posted: 02/09/2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin's spokesman says Fallin plans to issue a 30-day reprieve to a death row inmate scheduled to die next week for the 1986 shooting death of the mother of his two children.
Alex Weintz told The Associated Press on Thursday that Fallin will issue the reprieve to 55-year-old Garry Thomas Allen to give her legal team more time to consider a 2005 Pardon and Parole Board recommendation to commute the sentence to life in prison without parole.
Allen's attorneys say he was mentally impaired at the time of the slaying and is now mentally incompetent.
The board voted 4-1 in 2005 to commute Allen's sentence to life and a judge issued a stay of execution before then-Gov. Brad Henry could act on the board's recommendation.
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