Oklahoma death row inmate who killed a bank guard is incompetent for execution, judge says

By KEN MILLER
Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has found that 63-year-old death row inmate Wade Greely Lay is incompetent to be executed. District Judge Tim Mills on Thursday wrote that psychologists found that the prisoner has no “rational understanding” of why he is to be put to death. Defense attorney Callie Heller called the ruling a relief, saying Lay is convinced that the execution is part of a government conspiracy to silence him. A spokesperson for Attorney General Gentner Drummond said the Oklahoma Court of Appeals will likely issue a formal stay of execution within days. Lay was convicted of killing a Tulsa bank guard in 2004.