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Left: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Gary Lumpkin (Photo via Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals). Right: FILE – This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File).

An Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals judge said in open court that rather than pacing executions far enough apart to give corrections staff time to recover from an “unsustainable” pace of back-to-back deaths, the employees involved should simply “man up” and “suck it up.”

An audio recording of Judge Gary Lumpkin’s rather unsympathetic remarks is available here.

At a hearing Tuesday, the judge responded to Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s official request to extend the time between executions to 90 days in an effort to reduce the strain on corrections staff. Drummond, a Republican, is the same attorney general who made headlines when, during his 2018 political campaign, he featured photos of murdered University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts in a segment that said “illegal aliens” are committing “the most heinous crimes.

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