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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.
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 ...
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 December 19, 2024, Oklahoma had 32 inmates on death row, of whom only one, Brenda Andrew, is female. [25]
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 ...
A dozen have been carried out since they resumed in 2021 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. ... Lumpkin on Tuesday pointed out the Department of Corrections carried out 18 executions ...
Oklahoma is set to execute its first of more than two dozen death row inmates over the next 29 months. But given the state’s complicated history with executions, both legal experts and critics ...
The following is a list of the stages in the appellate process that must be completed before the state can move forward with the inmate's execution: [1] The Direct Appeal; State Post-Conviction Review; Federal Habeas Corpus; Of those who have exhausted their appeals, some are immediately eligible to be executed but some are not.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 31, 2025 Marion Bowman Jr. 44 20 24 Male Black South Carolina: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson: 37 24 13 Texas: Profile: 3 February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier: 52 19 33 Alabama ...