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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.
OSP also houses Oklahoma's execution chamber. Female death row prisoners are housed at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center located near McLoud, Oklahoma and are transferred to OSP for their execution. [citation needed] As of February 25, 2025, Oklahoma had 30 inmates on death row, of whom only one, Brenda Andrew, is female. [25]
A jury recommended the death penalty on March 7, 2008. On April 3, 2008, McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock approved the recommended death sentence. [5] On July 1, 2022, Underwood was one of 25 death row inmates to be scheduled for execution in Oklahoma. He was initially scheduled to be executed on December 7, 2023. [6]
Oklahoma's next death row inmate to be executed is Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, who suffocated a 10-year-old Purcell girl in 2006 because of his cannibalistic fantasies. His execution date has not ...
Anthony Sanchez was the state's third executed death row inmate of 2023 and the 10th person killed by Oklahoma since the state resumed executions in October 2021 following a nearly seven-year ...
An Oklahoma death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday morning for a double slaying that happened more than two decades ago.. Michael DeWayne Smith, 41, who is scheduled to receive a ...
In 1915, Oklahoma adopted electrocution as its main form of capital punishment, with a designated execution chamber being added to the state penitentiary in McAlester. [2] From that year to 1972, 83 prisoners (all male) were executed in the state penitentiary. 82 were electrocuted; one of the prisoners, sentenced to death by the federal ...
South Carolina death row inmate to be executed by firing squad, first in US in 15 years. ... Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah allow execution by firing squad, according to DPI.