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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. [1] For people executed by Oklahoma after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
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.
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 January 29, 2025, Oklahoma had 32 inmates on death row, of whom only one, Brenda Andrew, is female. [25]
A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State ...
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma over recommendations for clemency from the parole board. He spent much of his childhood in Wichita. ‘A piece of my heart is gone’: Funeral held in ...
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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 ...
Three (Wanda Jean Allen, Marilyn Kay Plantz, and Lois Nadean Smith) were female; all three were executed in Oklahoma. [1] [2] One notable execution was of domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, who was responsible for carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. McVeigh's execution was the first to be carried out by the United States federal ...