Author: Darla Shelden
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OK-CADP pleads for clemency during press conference for death row prisoner Richard Fairchild
OKLAHOMA CITY – On Friday, October 7, 2022 the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a press conference asking for mercy for death row prisoner Richard Fairchild, who is scheduled to be executed on November 17. The […]
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OP ED: Rev. Don Heath, Oklahoma executions will continue until the people say ‘Stop’
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, […]
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Groups hope to draw attention to death penalty in Oklahoma with 25 white crosses
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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