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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.
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.
A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State ...
Littlejohn was executed for the fatal shooting of Oklahoma City convenience store owner Kenneth Meers in 1992. ... said 12,202 people signed online petitions calling on Gov. Kevin Stitt to show ...
The last execution in Oklahoma was April 4. Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Monday asked the court to set Rojem's execution approximately 90 days from April 4 and on a Thursday.
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 ...
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a convenience store owner.