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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.
Sells was arrested in the area around that time for an unrelated charge. July 5, 1999, Kingfisher, Oklahoma : Bobbie Lynn Wofford , 14, was picked up from a Love's Convenience Store by Sells, who drove her to a secluded area, sexually assaulted, struck repeatedly with a hatchet, and then shot her in the head with a large calibre revolver when ...
In 1916 she was arrested and spent two years in prison. After the war, she received numerous honors from the governments of France, Belgium and Great Britain, and wrote a memoir entitled I Was a Spy! [116] Gabrielle Petit spied for the British Secret Service in Belgium. She was executed in 1916 and became a Belgian national heroine after the ...
The little girl was beaten with a wooden cutting board, suffocated to death and later raped and mutilated at his apartment in Purcell, a small community about 40 miles south of Oklahoma City, on ...
Police in Oklahoma arrested a man on Wednesday accused of throwing a pipe bomb at the Salem, Massachusetts headquarters of a Satanic group.. Authorities said Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, has been ...
According to Oklahoma prison records, McFadden was sent to prison in 2003 for first-degree rape, and served nearly 16 years before being released in 2020. Jesse McFadden (KOTV-DT)
Circa 1910, the family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Through the 1920s and 1930s, Barker, with his brothers Herman, Lloyd and Fred, committed numerous crimes such as theft, robbery and murder. On July 18, 1918, Barker was arrested for stealing a car on the highway and was sent to serve prison time in Joplin, Missouri. On February 19, 1920, he ...
An Oklahoma man who was recently convicted in the 1997 disappearance and presumed death of his young neighbor was found strangled to death in his prison cell on Jan. 11.