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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 ...
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 179 days [80] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith faces execution by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for two 2002 murders. The execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
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 ...
On that same day, two more condemned inmates from Oklahoma, Julius Jones and Phillip Dean Hancock, also lost their final appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. [43] [44] All three of them (including Sanchez) became one of Oklahoma's 11 death row inmates eligible for execution, [45] and the list increased to 16 as of March 2018. [46]
Executed on June 27, 2024. Rojem was the longest-serving death row inmate in Oklahoma at the time of his execution. Emmanuel Littlejohn – Convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers. Executed on September 26, 2024. Kevin Ray Underwood – Convicted of the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. Executed on December 19, 2024.
Oklahoma death row inmate Kevin Ray Underwood is a day away from execution in the brutal 2006 rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl. Underwood, 44, is set to be executed by lethal injection on ...