Tag: oklahoma
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Religious leaders host forum to stir death penalty dialogue
By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP), in partnership with the Oklahoma Conference of Churches (OCC) recently co-hosted a forum themed “Religious Leader’s Dialogue on the Death Penalty.” The event, moderated by […]
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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 won’t join the ranks of those that have outright abolished […]
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Coalition plans protest and vigil for scheduled execution of Steven Ray Thacker
Steven Ray Thacker, a 42-year-old Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 6 p.m. in McAlester, OK. The announcement was made in January after Thacker had exhausted all his appeals […]
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