Tag: oklahoma
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OP ED: Rev. Don Heath, Oklahoma executions will continue until the people say ‘Stop’
This opinion was originally published on August 28, 2022 by The Oklahoman I was in the execution chamber with James Coddington Thursday for the last 45 minutes of his life. When I entered, he was already strapped to a gurney, […]
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Groups hope to draw attention to death penalty in Oklahoma with 25 white crosses
By Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman, Aug. 23, 2022Green or red — the colors will symbolize life or death, mercy or no mercy, in a prominent anti-death penalty display outside a northwest Oklahoma City church. Twenty-five crosses have been erected along […]
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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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