While country music played gently in the background and sheriff's deputies watched from the wings, two clerks asked the couples some innocent but awkward questions and logged addresses, phone numbers and relatives' names on a computer.
"Although the use of Midazolam in this case has already been decided, the case raises very thorny questions about whether Oklahoma will be executing a potentially innocent man with a potentially tortuous drug, " said Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center.