In 1st Since Botched Death, 3 Inmates Set for Execution

Nine executions nationwide have been stayed in the seven weeks since Clayton Lockett died in a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma, but three convicted killers are scheduled to die in the next day or so. All three states planning lethal injections—Florida, Georgia, and Missouri—refuse to say where they get their drugs, or if they are tested. Lawyers for the condemned inmates have challenged the secretive process used by some states to obtain lethal injection drugs from unnamed, loosely regulated compounding pharmacies. "I think after Clayton Lockett's execution everyone is going to be watching very closely," says a death penalty expert. "The scrutiny is going to be even closer."

Marcus Wellons is set to die tonight in Georgia, followed six hours later by John Winfield, who faces execution at 12:01am in Missouri. John Ruthell Henry's execution is scheduled for 6pm tomorrow in Florida, which is moving ahead despite claims that Henry is mentally ill and intellectually disabled. Georgia and Missouri both use the single drug pentobarbital, a sedative. Florida uses a three-drug cocktail of midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. (More capital punishment stories.)