Author: Darla Shelden
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Oklahoma Attorney General Requests 25 Execution Dates Despite Independent Investigation and Claims of Innocence, Serious Mental Illness, and Brain Damage
June 13, 2022 / Death Penalty Information Center Oklahoma state prosecutors are pushing to schedule 25 executions over approximately two years, after a federal judge denied death-row prisoners’ challenge to the state’s controversial lethal-injection protocol. On June 10, 2022, Oklahoma […]
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Lawmakers Get Texas Firm To Review Case Of Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip
Oxygen, By Constance Johnson – Feb. 22, 2022 A Texas law firm is reviewing the case of a twice-convicted Oklahoma death row inmate after a group of Republican state lawmakers, doubting his guilt, intervened on his behalf. Reed Smith, a […]
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Oklahoma County Becomes Nation’s Third Most Prolific County Executioner as State Puts Intellectually Impaired Gilbert Postelle to Death
Death Penalty Info Center, Feb. 18, 2022 When Oklahoma executed Gilbert Postelle on February 17, 2022, it came with a dubious distinction. The intellectually impaired man who was 18 years old at the time of his offense became the 44th […]
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