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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.
Dale Baich, an attorney for death row plaintiffs said, "Based on the reporting of the eyewitnesses to the execution, for the third time in a row, Oklahoma's execution protocol did not work as it was designed to. This is why the Tenth Circuit stayed John Grant's execution and this is why the U.S. Supreme Court should not have lifted the stay.
The last execution in Oklahoma was April 4. Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Monday asked the court to set Rojem's execution approximately 90 days from April 4 and on a Thursday.
The execution gurney is shown in this image from a video released by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. As the end grows closer, death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn hasn't been resting well.
On the morning of December 19, 2024, Underwood was executed via lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. [1] His last meal consisted of chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, a cheeseburger with french fries and ketchup, pinto beans, a hot roll and a cola drink from the prison canteen.
The execution gurney is shown in this image from a video released by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith on Monday lost his request for a stay of his ...
Michael DeWayne Smith was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after a lethal injection. He was 41. Michael DeWayne Smith executed for two 2002 murders in Oklahoma City
The execution date was ultimately staved off for unknown reasons. [28] [29] In August 2022, two months after a death row inmate's failed legal challenge against the constitutionality of Oklahoma's execution protocols, [30] Rojem was one of the 25 inmates who had their execution dates scheduled after their avenues of appeal were all exhausted ...