Oklahoma judge declares death row inmate Wade Lay incompetent for execution due to mental illness.

Oklahoma judge declares death row inmate Wade Lay incompetent for execution due to severe mental illness. Lay, who killed a bank guard during a 2004 robbery, had his execution halted in 2021 over mental health concerns. The Pittsburg County District Court ruled that Lay lacked any rational understanding of why the State sought to execute him, and that his execution would violate the Constitution.