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John Michael O'Connor (born December 5, 1954) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 19th attorney general of Oklahoma between 2021 and 2023. O’Connor was previously a shareholder of Hall Estill and a nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the United States District Court for the Northern ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. [1] Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States. [2]
Judy Clare Clarke (born 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants such as Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Joseph Edward Duncan, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jared Lee Loughner, Robert Gregory Bowers, Burford Furrow, Lisa Montgomery and Susan Smith.
The Supreme Court weighs whether inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction should be thrown out — an unusual death penalty case in which the attorney general of Oklahoma has sided with a defendant.
Death penalty moratorium passes Oklahoma House committee, but it's unlikely to become law. Attorney General Gentner Drummond and an assistant told the court a request for that reason is barred by ...
Richard Glossip at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., in November 2016. Glossip has been on death row for over two decades. His case has motivated Oklahoma state Rep. Kevin McDugle ...
In June 2023, Randy Bauman, a board member of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, wrote that it was unfair Richard Glossip did not have all 5 members in his case and pushed back against the idea that the board is a "safety valve" for an unjust and fallible criminal justice system. Instead of a tie weighing in favor of the ...
What death row inmates can choose for their last meal varies a lot, highlighting American ambivalence around capital punishment. Death penalty in the US: How do Oklahoma's last meal rules compare ...