Executions
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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 […]
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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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Julius Jones: Oklahoma recommends taking man off death row weeks before execution, citing ‘inherently wrong’ case
By Josh Marcus San Francisco, The Independent, Nov. 1, 2021 The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended three-to-one that death row inmate Julius Jones’ upcoming execution should be stopped. The vote comes just weeks before he was set to be […]
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