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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 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Warner was the last man to be executed in Oklahoma for nearly seven years, until October 28, 2021, when John Marion Grant was executed, also by lethal injection. [16] During Grant's execution, he vomited and convulsed after the administration of the lethal injection.
In 1915, Oklahoma adopted electrocution as its main form of capital punishment, with a designated execution chamber being added to the state penitentiary in McAlester. [2] From that year to 1972, 83 prisoners (all male) were executed in the state penitentiary. 82 were electrocuted; one of the prisoners, sentenced to death by the federal ...
He is the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the 12th put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 following a nearly seven-year hiatus resulting from problems with ...
Kevin Underwood, 45, was executed Thursday morning after being convicted in 2008 for the 2006 murder his 10-year-old neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin. Oklahoma executes Kevin Underwood for murder of ...
Oklahoma's next death row inmate to be executed is Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, who suffocated a 10-year-old Purcell girl in 2006 because of his cannibalistic fantasies. His execution date has not ...
James Donald French (June 16, 1936 [a] – August 10, 1966) was an American double murderer who was the last person executed under Oklahoma's death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia , which suspended capital punishment in the United States from 1972 until 1976.
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a convenience store owner.