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On July 1, 2022, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for twenty-five state death row inmates, one of whom was Johnson. He was scheduled to be executed on May 2, 2024. [ 11 ] His execution was later postponed due to a request by attorney general Gentner Drummond , who asked for sixty days between executions rather than ...
On Oct. 17, 1979, he was convicted of all nine murders, and sentenced to death. [8] His wife Verna testified against him, and divorced him while he was on death row (she was sentenced to two life terms for her part in the crimes). Stafford married again—twice—while awaiting execution. [4]
Wayne Henry Garrison (born August 26, 1959) is an American serial killer who was convicted of killing three children. He was arrested in 1999 for the 1989 murder and dismemberment of 13-year-old Justin Wiles in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Tulsa ruled the Nov 15, 2023, death of an inmate at Washington County Jail, was an accident caused by combined toxicity from heroin and methamphetamine. ...
As Freddie Eugene Owens lives the last hours of his life, USA TODAY is sharing some of the South Carolina death row inmate's handwritten letters to a woman he loved. At times furious and at others ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson was born in Oklahoma, U.S., on February 18, 1987.Nelson, who had a brother and sister (who was deaf), was a victim of childhood abuse and neglect. Nelson's mother left him at home by himself, sometimes for 3 to 4 days, and never paid much attention to her children, while Nelson's father was often absent in his life, and he was abusive towards his children and wi
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.
Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith wept Wednesday as he pleaded for mercy, saying again he is innocent of two 2002 murders despite confessing to police. "I didn't commit these crimes. I didn't ...