The state's attorney general, Scott Pruitt, temporarily halted executions while the Corrections Department, under new leadership, reviews its failures and establishes new protocols. BarometerDecreasing support for the death penalty "is the national direction," said Abraham Bonowitz, an opponent of capital punishment who is organizing the opposition to Oklahoma's ballot initiative.Some religious leaders, including the state's top Roman Catholic clergyman, have come out in opposition to the measure.But there have been a lot of questions raised in the last several years over the state's death penalty."We're allowing the people, who overwhelmingly favor the death penalty in Oklahoma, to show certain entities that they want this," said state representative Mike Ritze, an Oklahoma Republican who was one of the proposal's authors.This November, a ballot measure in California -- which has 741 death [...]