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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. [1] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. [1] For people executed by Oklahoma after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
Oklahoma is the one of two states allowing more than three methods of execution in its statutes, providing lethal injection which is Oklahoma's primary method, nitrogen hypoxia, electrocution and firing squad to be used in that order if all earlier methods are unavailable or found to be unconstitutional. The nitrogen option was added by the ...
Kevin Underwood, 45, was executed Thursday morning after being convicted in 2008 for the 2006 murder his 10-year-old neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin.
Underwood is set to be executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, about 100 miles southeast of Oklahoma City at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19.
Oklahoma's execution pace has slowed Oklahoma resumed executions in late October 2021 after a hiatus of more than six years. By mid-2022, four had taken place, and 25 more were scheduled through ...
Smith was the first person to be executed in Oklahoma during the year 2024, as well as the fourth person to be executed in the U.S. on that same year. Smith was also the 12th person to be executed in Oklahoma after the state's resumption of executions in 2021, ending a six-year moratorium on the state's use of capital punishment due to high ...
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a convenience store owner.