OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A
federal judge has rejected an attempt by an Oklahoma inmate to stop his
pending execution for the slayings of 2 people.
U.S. District Judge David
Russell on Monday denied inmate George Ochoa's attempt for a stay of
execution. Ochoa's attorney has appealed Russell's ruling to the U.S.
10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 38-year-old Ochoa is
scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of 2
people in their Oklahoma City home while 3 of the couple's young
children were present. Ochoa maintains he is innocent.
Ochoa's attorneys also
claim their client is insane and that Oklahoma's procedure for
determining competency to be executed is unconstitutional. But Russell
rejected both of those claims in his order on Monday.
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