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Donald Lee "Don" Nickles (born 1948), U.S. senator from Oklahoma 1981–2005; George Nigh (born 1927), two-time governor of Oklahoma; Tony Perkins (born 1963), director of the Family Research Council and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; Riley L. Pitts (1937–1967), U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. 2015 manslaughter in Tulsa, Oklahoma Not to be confused with Suicide of Eric Harris. Killing of Eric Harris Bodycam footage showing Eric Harris running from the police, prior to getting shot. Location Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Date April 2, 2015 (2015-04-02) 11:00 a.m. CST (17:00 ...
Harris served eight years in the Senate, first winning in 1964 to fill a vacancy, and made unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1976. It fell to Harris, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1969 and 1970, to help heal the party’s wounds from the tumultuous national convention in 1968 when protesters and police clashed in Chicago.
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.
Harris was born on November 13, 1930, in Cotton County, Oklahoma, near Walters, Oklahoma, the son of Eunice Alene (Pearson) and Fred Byron Harris, a sharecropper. [1] His parents disagreed on whether his middle name should be "Ray" or "Roy", and his handwritten birth certificate was ambiguous, allowing Harris to choose; he eventually used his mother's preferred name, Roy.
Russell M. Perry, former Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce; John Threadgill (1847–1915), Oklahoma legislator and Texas politician [74] Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator and 2020 Presidential candidate; J.C. Watts, University of Oklahoma football player and former Congressman; Mac Q. Williamson, former Attorney General of Oklahoma
Patrolman John James Wilding [429] Scranton Police Department, PA: Foot pursuit (fall) 2015-07-15: Corrections Officer Timothy Davison [430] Texas Department of Criminal Justice, TX: Assault 2015-07-17: Police Officer Vernell Brown Jr. [431] New Orleans Police Department, LA: Struck by vehicle 2015-07-21: Lieutenant Rebecca Buck: New York City ...