By Khaleda Rahman – Newsweek 12/26/22 This year was the eighth consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. However, 2022 saw a record number of “botched” and failed executions, the […]
Derrick James, The Woodward NewsTue, December 13, 2022 A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the Oklahoma attorney general’s lawsuit against the federal government over the transfer of a death row inmate for a scheduled execution while state officials seek a […]
KOCO Staff Report – Nov. 17, 2022 MCALESTER, OK – The state of Oklahoma has executed death row inmate Richard Fairchild at the state penitentiary in McAlester. He was pronounced dead at 10:24 a.m. Thursday by lethal injection. Fairchild had […]
This opinion was originally published on August 28, 2022 by The Oklahoman I was in the execution chamber with James Coddington Thursday for the last 45 minutes of his life. When I entered, he was already strapped to a gurney, […]
By Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman, Aug. 23, 2022Green or red — the colors will symbolize life or death, mercy or no mercy, in a prominent anti-death penalty display outside a northwest Oklahoma City church. Twenty-five crosses have been erected along […]
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OK-CADP 2022-2023 Executive Board:Chair – Rev. Don HeathVice Chair – Dr. Elizabeth OvermanSecretary – Sue HoschTreasurer: Nykkia HarrisChair Appointed Ex. Board Member – Leslie Fitzhugh2022 – 2023 At-Large Board Members:Margaret CoxLeslie FitzhughKelley GarrettNykkia HarrisConnie JohnsonDr. Elizabeth OvermanEarnest Ware Oklahoma […]
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To watch the James Coddington press conference click HERE. On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a press conference to plead for mercy for death row prisoner James Coddington, who is scheduled […]
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Julius Jones sat on Oklahoma’s death row for over 20 years despite maintaining his innocence and compelling evidence that he was wrongfully convicted. Mr. Jones’ co-defendant fit an eyewitness’s description of the shooter, while Mr. Jones did not. His co-defendant […]
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By Dillon Richards, KOCO News – Dec. 1, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for another death row inmate Gilbert Postelle. Postelle was convicted of four murders that happened on Memorial Day in 2005. […]
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By Shelby Banks, FOX23 News – Nov. 30, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has voted to deny clemency to Donald Grant in a 4-1 vote. Grant has been sitting on Oklahoma’s death row for 20 […]
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by: Kaylee Douglas/KFOR – Dec. 3, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt today denied the Pardon and Parole Board’s clemency recommendation for death row inmate, Bigler Stouffer. Bigler “Bud” Jobe Stouffer II, 79, was convicted of shooting Doug […]
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