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01/08/2024

Oklahoma Court Stays Scheduled Execution Pending Evaluation of Seriously Mentally Ill Prisoner James Ryder

By Death Penalty Info Center, Jan. 8, 2024 On December 22, 2023, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued a 100-day stay of execution to carry out a mental competency hearing for James Ryder, who was scheduled to be executed […]
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10/07/2022

OK-CADP pleads for clemency during press conference for death row prisoner Richard Fairchild

OKLAHOMA CITY – On Friday, October 7, 2022 the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a press conference asking for mercy for death row prisoner Richard Fairchild, who is scheduled to be executed on November 17. The […]
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02/20/2013

Georgia Inmate Wins Stay of Execution 30 Minutes Before Execution

US federal appeals court for the 11th circuit spares prisoner from death chamber to consider issue of his intellectual disabilities By Ed Pikington in Jackson Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 Warren Hill, an intellectually disabled prisoner, has been spared the death […]
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