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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his only nonfiction title as of 2020.The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
Ron Williamson. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to ...
Firearm. Roger Dale Stafford (November 4, 1951 – July 1, 1995) was a convicted serial killer executed for the 1978 murders of the Lorenz Family and six employees of a Sirloin Stockade restaurant in Oklahoma. [ 1] Stafford never acknowledged his guilt, but Stafford's wife, Verna, implicated him in a total of 34 murders in seven different states.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 125 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Murder for hire (three counts) Oklahoma City: Death Five years Yes On July 6, 1980, three men were gunned down outside a motel in Oklahoma City. Police suspected that the murders were orchestrated by police officer turned drug dealer Harold Behrens, who believed that one of the men, Ray Peters, was planning to inform on him to the police.
Oklahoma Girl Scout murders: June 12, 1977 8–11 Mayes County, Oklahoma Unsolved Three girls murdered while at a summer camp. The prime suspect has since died and DNA samples from the killer are now insufficient to process. [22] Robert Winch: November 10, 1977 16 Chicago, Illinois Solved Victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. [20]
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. [ 4] The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census. The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. [ 5] Ada is home to East Central University, and is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation.
Pages in category "People convicted of murder by Oklahoma" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.