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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the second-largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. [1] Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States. [2] Oklahoma was the first ...
A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence. [1]
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.
Oklahoma: Murder James Hargus White 26 24 April 1936 Tulsa: Murder L. D. Mitchell, white (Tulsa police officer) [37] Arthur Gooch [a] White 27 19 June 1936 Federal: Kidnapping R. N. Baker and H. R. Marks, both white [38] Leon Siler White 22 11 June 1937 Comanche: Murder J. E. Wilson, white (Grady County deputy sheriff) [39] Charlie Sands Native ...
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.
New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) 31-year-old Henry Glover was shot with a .223 rifle by NOPD officer David Warren from a second-story balcony. Glover had been retrieving loot at the time. [140] [141] 30 July 2005: Melvin Williams 13 April 2011: New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) Williams kicked and beat Raymond Robair with a baton.
The Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police also serves as ex officio Deputy Secretary of Public Safety Services, with more than 2600 personnel. Beginning January 8, 2024, Robert P. Hodges will replace outgoing Colonel Lamar Davis [13] as the 27th Louisiana State Police superintendent and deputy secretary of Public Safety Services. [14] [15]
Jul. 25—Fifty years ago on Thursday, what some consider the most destructive riot in U.S. history, erupted at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. July 27, 1973, started as a regular day at ...