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  2. List of people executed in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Capital punishment in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of people executed in Oklahoma (pre-1972) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Execution of Clayton Lockett - Wikipedia

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    Oklahoma State Penitentiary, the location of the execution chamber of Oklahoma. Lockett's execution occurred at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, on April 29, 2014, after he had been tasered by staff and attempted to cut himself earlier that day. [25] A paramedic tried twice to put an IV needle into Lockett's left arm but ...

  6. Kevin Ray Underwood - Wikipedia

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    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 ] His execution was later postponed due to a request by attorney general Gentner Drummond , who asked for sixty days between executions rather than thirty "to alleviate the ...

  7. Richard Glossip - Wikipedia

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    On July 1, 2022, Glossip was one of twenty-five death row inmates to be scheduled for execution in Oklahoma. He was scheduled to be executed on September 22, 2022. [55] On August 16, 2022, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted a 60-day stay of execution. Glossip was then scheduled to be executed on December 8, 2022.

  8. Execution of John Grant - Wikipedia

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    The execution of John Grant (April 12, 1961 – October 28, 2021) took place in the U.S. state of Oklahoma by means of lethal injection. Grant was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of prison cafeteria worker Gay Carter.

  9. James French (murderer) - Wikipedia

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    The first post-Furman execution in Oklahoma did not occur until September 10, 1990, when Charles Coleman was executed via lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. It was the first execution carried out in Oklahoma in over twenty-four years, since that of French's in 1966. [14]