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Washington (AFP) - A man convicted of killing two people more than two decades ago was executed by lethal injection in the western US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, officials said. Michael Smith, 41, was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the Department of Corrections officials said in a statement. It said the execution process began at 10:09 am Central Time (1509 GMT) and Smith was pronounced dead 11 minutes later. A "spiritual advisor" was present in the execution chamber at the time. Smith was convicted in 2003 of the separate 2002 murders in Oklahoma City of Ja...
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Washington (AFP) - An Oklahoma man convicted of a double murder was put to death by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, the 24th and final execution to be carried out in the United States this year. Phillip Hancock, 59, was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Corrections said. He had been sentenced to death for the April 2001 murders of Robert Jett and James Lynch, members of a biker gang. Though the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board had recommended that Hancock -- who claimed he had acted in self-defense --...
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Washington (AFP) - A 57-year-old man was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday for the murder of his infant daughter after the Supreme Court rejected last-minute appeals that his life be spared on the grounds that he was severely mentally ill. Benjamin Cole was put to death by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the Department of Corrections said. Cole had been on Death Row in the south-central state since 2004 for the murder of his nine-month-old daughter, Brianna. He was accused of killing the crying child to silence her so he could continue playing a video game. Med...
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Washington (AFP) - A 50-year-old convicted murderer was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday after the governor rejected a recommendation of clemency from the pardon board of the central US state. James Coddington was put to death by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said. The execution began at 10:02 am and Coddington was pronounced dead 14 minutes later, said Scott Crow, the director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. He said there were "absolutely no issues." "The execution today went in accordance with the protocol with no issues at all," Crow sa...
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Washington (AFP) - The Oklahoma state legislature on Wednesday passed a bill banning abortions from the moment of fertilization, with some exceptions, the strictest ban so far in the United States. The action by Oklahoma follows steps taken in other Republican-led states to restrict access to abortions in anticipation of the US Supreme Court soon overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision allowing nation-wide access to abortion. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, who is expected to sign it -- at which point it would immediately come into effect. Demo...
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Washington (AFP) - A 35-year-old man was executed in the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday for a quadruple murder he carried out at the request of his father when he was a teenager. Gilbert Ray Postelle was put to death by lethal injection at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, prison officials said. Media witnesses said the execution appeared to have taken place without any complications. They said Postelle shook his head no when asked if he had any last words. Postelle's execution was the fourth in Oklahoma since October -- when a nearly seven-year moratorium on executions was...
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Washington (AFP) - The governor of Oklahoma commuted the death sentence at the last-minute on Thursday of a 41-year-old Black man who was to be executed for a murder he denies committing, and whose case sparked a public outcry. Governor Kevin Stitt stepped in less than four hours before Julius Jones had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. "After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones' sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole," the...
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Washington (AFP) - The governor of Oklahoma commuted the death sentence at the last-minute on Thursday of a 41-year-old Black man who was to be executed for a murder he denies committing, and whose case sparked a public outcry. Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones to life in prison less than four hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and a number of other public figures had appealed to the governor to halt the execution. In an executive order, Stitt said he was commuting Jones' death sentence to life in prison witho...
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Washington (AFP) - A convicted murderer vomited and experienced convulsions as he was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, witnesses said. John Grant, 60, was the first inmate to be put to death in Oklahoma since a series of botched executions led to a temporary moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Grant, who is Black, was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of a white prison cafeteria worker, Gay Carter. Journalists who witnessed the execution said at a press conference that Grant had vomited and experienced full body convulsions about two dozen t...
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