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19 hours ago · At least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1973, largely Black and Latinx inmates who are wrongfully convicted at a higher rate than white people, according to the ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Posted on Sep 21, 2021. After more than six years with no executions and with a trial pending on the constitutionality of the state’s lethal injection process, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has issued death warrants setting seven execution dates in a less than five-month period between late October 2021 and mid-March 2022. The death ...
Aug 25, 2022 · The next Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled for execution. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set 25 execution dates for convicted murderers who have exhausted appeals of their convictions and sentences. James Coddington, who beat a friend to death with a claw hammer in 1997, was the first. He was executed Thursday morning.
Feb 2, 2024 · A joint motion filed Tuesday by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Oklahoma Department of Corrections Executive Director Steven Harpe asks OCCA to set, at 90-day intervals, the phase three execution dates for six Oklahoma death row inmates. State appellate judges ordered in July 2021 an execution schedule of 25 inmates to be carried ...
Jul 1, 2022 · Published 11:30 AM PDT, July 1, 2022. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday set execution dates for six death row inmates, just hours before an attorney filed a motion for a rehearing in one case. Execution dates for James Coddington, Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole, Richard Fairchild, John Hanson and Scott ...
Jul 6, 2022 · State appellate judges set execution dates for 19 more Oklahoma death row inmates — including at least one awaiting a competency trial — in a phased schedule through December 2024.
Jul 26, 2019 · Published 6:34 PM PDT, July 25, 2019. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at ...
