Author: Darla Shelden
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Oklahoma Executes Donald Grant: First U.S. Execution of 2022
Death Penalty Info Center, Jan. 27, 2022 Oklahoma carried out the first execution of 2022 in the U.S. on January 27, injecting Donald Grant (pictured, at his clemency hearing) with a three-drug chemical cocktail whose constitutionality is the subject of […]
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Oklahoma death row inmate Bigler Stouffer executed
MCALESTER, Okla. (KOKH Dec. 9, 2021) — Oklahoma death row inmate Bigler Stouffer was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Thursday morning. Stouffer was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. after receiving a lethal three-drug injection. The 79-year-old […]
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Former U.S. Judge Andy Lester Calls on Oklahoma to Implement Reforms to “Badly Broken” Capital Punishment System Before Continuing Executions
By Death Penalty Information Center – Sept. 27, 2024 “From start to finish, it is so badly broken that we cannot know whether someone who has been condemned to death is actually deserving of the ultimate penalty,” wrote former U.S. […]
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