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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.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. [1] For people executed by Oklahoma after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
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.
Richard Norman Rojem Jr. is now set to be executed June 27 for the 1984 murder of a 7-year-old girl. He has been on death row for decades because he twice won challenges to his punishment. Rojem ...
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a convenience store owner.
The first inmate executed in Oklahoma after a hiatus of more than six years threw up from the gurney. Since that Oct. 28, 2021, execution, Oklahoma has carried out a string of lethal injections ...
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.
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 ...