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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Oklahoma Corrections Department has agreed that condemned prisoners in the future can have a personal spiritual advisor in the execution chamber. Oklahoma to allow death row inmates a personal ...
Richard Norman Rojem Jr. is now set to be executed June 27 for the 1984 murder of a 7-year-old girl. He has been on death row for decades because he twice won challenges to his punishment. Rojem ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford: 64 36 28 Male White Florida: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 Richard Lee Tabler: 46 25 21 Texas: Profile: 3 March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon: 67 43 24 South Carolina: To be determined: Profile: 4 ...