Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

OK-CADP’s 30th Annual Dinner to Feature Evangelical Activist Shane Claiborne

The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) will host its 2022 Annual Awards Dinner & Meeting on Saturday, August 20. The fundraising event will be held at the Oklahoma City First Church of the Nazarene, 4400 Northwest Expressway. […]
Oklahoma Legislature Releases Independent Review of Richard Glossip Case

June 27, 2022 / Death Penalty Information Center Oklahoma legislators announced that an independent investigation revealed strong evidence of Richard Glossip’s innocence. Glossip, who came within hours of execution in 2015, is the second prisoner the Oklahoma Attorney General is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]

OK-CADP 2021-2022 Executive Board:Chair – Rev. Don HeathVice Chair – Dr. Elizabeth OvermanSecretary – Margaret CoxTreasurer: Margie RoetkerChair Appointed Member – Leslie Fitzhugh2021 – 2022 At-Large Board Members:Randy BaumanMargaret CoxLeslie FitzhughKelley GarrettNykkia HarrisDr. Elizabeth OvermanEarnest Ware Oklahoma Coalition to […]