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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.
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 ...
Pages in category "People convicted of murder by Oklahoma" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The same report said there were 2,436 security staff in 18 of Oklahoma’s prisons and 17,605 inmates in midyear 2019, a ratio of seven inmates to every correctional officer. Yet another report ...
People executed by Oklahoma (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Prisoners who died in Oklahoma detention" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
According to the federal report, Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, Oklahoma's mortality rate was 396 per 100,000 in state and federal prisons, and that excludes executions. It's higher than ...
Homicide is the fourth-leading cause of inmate death in Oklahoma prisons, excluding executions. Corrections Department officials previously said that staffing levels aren't causing prison violence.
Name Date of death Nationality Cause of death Known for Comments Michael Tan Teow: 1990-05-08 Singapore: Suicide by pill overdose Convicted murderer and former actor Died in a solitary confinement cell at Changi Prison's death row section. Found guilty in 1985 of murdering a landlady and her two children, and sentenced to hang.