Tag: oklahoma
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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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Oklahoma, Alabama Executions Raise Concerns About Clemency Process and Execution Methods
Death Penalty Information Center– Sept. 26, 2024 Executions in Oklahoma and Alabama, scheduled just hours apart on September 26, highlight issues of proportional sentencing and experimental methods of execution. Emmanuel Littlejohn, who was executed at 10:17am CT, had received a recommendation […]
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