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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 124 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. Of the 124 people, 121 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
An Oklahoma death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday morning for a double slaying that happened more than two decades ago.. Michael DeWayne Smith, 41, who is scheduled to receive a ...
Kenneth Eugene Smith argued lethal injection was ‘cruel and unusual punishment ...
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 19 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent less than 1.15 percent of the 1,561 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Last week, a rookie Tennessee police officer died in the line of duty. But while the loss of the officer is tragic, evidence suggests that his death—as well as the death of a woman in his ...
Abolition of death penalty. Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation on March 9, 2011, to abolish the death penalty in Illinois. All fifteen death row inmates in the state had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment without parole. See also. Capital punishment in Illinois; Capital punishment in the United States; Notes
Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a ...
A sheriff’s deputy and a woman he arrested have both been found dead after officials say the officer accidentally drove his patrol car into the Tennessee River, according to local authorities.