Tag: death penalty
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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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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 […]
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