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OSP also houses Oklahoma's execution chamber. Female death row prisoners are housed at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center located near McLoud, Oklahoma and are transferred to OSP for their execution. [citation needed] As of February 3, 2025, Oklahoma had 31 inmates on death row, of whom only one, Brenda Andrew, is female. [25]
In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (14 years and 10 months) between sentencing and execution. [5] Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution. [6] There were 2,721 people on death row in the United States on October 1, 2018. [7]
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions , appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations , or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 2 ]
On Dec. 19, Kevin Ray Underwood became the last person executed in 2024. Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin. Six days earlier, the Oklahoma Pardon and ...
The scene of a vigil by a small group of anti-death penalty activists in Washington Square Park in New York City for Oklahoma death row prisoner Julius Jones on the day of his scheduled execution ...
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A jury recommended the death penalty on March 7, 2008. On April 3, 2008, McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock approved the recommended death sentence. [5] On July 1, 2022, Underwood was one of 25 death row inmates to be scheduled for execution in Oklahoma. He was initially scheduled to be executed on December 7, 2023. [6]
CORRECTION (Jan. 22, 2024, 3:18 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when an Oklahoma appeals court upheld Glossip’s death sentence. It was last year, not earlier this year. It ...