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The Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 killing in ...
Oklahoma statute books still provide the death penalty for first-degree rape, extortionate kidnapping, and rape or forcible sodomy of a victim under 14 where the defendant had a prior conviction of sexual abuse of a person under 14 [6] [7] [8] but the death penalty for these crimes is no longer constitutional since the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ...
Oklahoma’s top criminal appeals court had repeatedly upheld the conviction and sentence, even after the state sided with Glossip. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the killing of Van Treese, who owned the motel where he was beaten to death with a baseball bat, in what prosecutors have alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme.
April Wilkens is seeking a lesser prison sentence under the Oklahoma Survivors Act – a new law that allows courts to consider factors such as abuse during the sentencing process and allows ...
The Supreme Court gave an Oklahoma death row inmate a new chance to prove his innocence, siding with his lawyers and the state in the murder case from 2004.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings on the use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While some rulings applied very narrowly, perhaps to only one individual, other cases have had great influence over wide areas of procedure, eligible crimes, acceptable evidence and method of execution.
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988), was the first case since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in the United States in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a minor on grounds of "cruel and unusual punishment." [1] The holding in Thompson was expanded on by Roper v.
Instead, details of a domestic abuse survivor's personal history can be used to reduce their sentence. "We are stating a policy in Oklahoma that domestic violence, physical abuse and sexual ...