TULSA, Okla., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring an Oklahoma pharmacy from delivering an execution drug for a Missouri execution later this month.
U.S. Senior District Judge Terence Kern, sitting in Tulsa, found attorneys for 47-year-old Michael A. Taylor showed that immediate and irreparable injury, loss or damage would result if the compounded pentobarbital were used, the Tulsa World reported.
Kern noted that Taylor is scheduled to be executed Feb. 26 and his lawyers showed the Tulsa-based Apothecary Shoppe was close to shipping the execution drug.
Taylor was sentenced to death for the 1989 abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl.
Kern scheduled a preliminary injunction hearing for Tuesday.
