UCO debates Oklahoma Justice Commission
By James Coburn – Edmond Sun, April 14, 2014 EDMOND — A 1-percent chance that an innocent person could be executed for murder is justification to end capital punishment, said […]
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OK-CADP Hosts Debate & Annual Dinner featuring Center on Wrongful Convictions founder Rob Warden
The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) recently held two special events, co-hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma’s American Democracy Project at the Nigh University Center on […]
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Death by Lethal Injection Faces New Hurdle
by Tracy Connor for NBC News An Oklahoma pharmacy’s agreement not to provide drugs for an execution in Missouri represents a new roadblock to lethal injections — one that has […]
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Chilling Testimony Of Death Row Executioners
At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke. Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he’d […]
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OK-CADP Holds Brian Darrell Davis Clemency Press Conference
OKLAHOMA CITY –The Brian Darrell Davis Clemency press conference sponsored by the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) a state affiliate of the National Coalition to Abolish the […]
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Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is a grassroots membership organization working to end the death penalty in Oklahoma. We are a statewide organization which engages in outreach, education, […]
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Oklahoma judge tosses state execution law
OKLAHOMA CITY – Associated Press — An Oklahoma judge ruled the state’s execution law unconstitutional Wednesday because its privacy provision is so strict that it that prevents inmates from finding […]
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Action Alert: Senate Judiciary Committee may take up SB 717 on Capital Punishment study
Senate Bill 717, creating a task force to study capital punishment, has been assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee that meets Tuesday, Feb 19. (If you can attend this meeting […]
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11th World Day Against the Death Penalty – 10-10-13
World Day Against the Death Penalty was launched in 2003 by the Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and has been held on 10 October every year since then. The day […]
continue reading →Death penalty falling, but not in Oklahoma
By Dan Holtmeyer Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — States use the death penalty less and less often across the country, and some have even dropped it altogether, but Oklahoma likely […]
continue reading →Maryland Senate passes O’Malley’s death penalty repeal bill
By ALEX JACKSON, Staff Writer Posted on March 6, 2013 The Maryland State Senate passed Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed death penalty repeal on Wednesday. After more than two hours of […]
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