Oklahoma schedules executions for 6 Death Row inmates
Executions are scheduled to begin in August and take place approximately once a month
Executions are scheduled to begin in August and take place approximately once a month
Executions are scheduled to begin in August and take place approximately once a month
Executions are set to resume in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday announced that an additional 25 inmates will be put to death. Some are scheduled to be executed before the end of the year. Six of them will be carried out by February.
A court filing makes it official, with executions scheduled to resume in late August. The state has scheduled one every month through January.
James Coddington is set to be put to death on Aug. 25. He was sentenced to death in 2003 for beating and killing Albert Hale with a hammer in Choctaw. Hale had refused to give Coddington money to buy drugs.
|MORE| Oklahoma attorney general requests court to set execution dates for 25 inmates
Richard Glossip’s execution is set for Sept. 22. Glossip’s conviction came after a jury found him guilty of ordering the killing of his boss, Barry Van Treese, at an OKC motel. His attorney today filed an application to stop the execution, citing an independent investigation requested by a group of state lawmakers.
|MORE| Execution dates scheduled for 6 Oklahoma death row inmates
"If a juror had heard all of the evidence including the new evidence that we found, no reasonable juror would convict Richard Glossip,” Glossip attorney Don Knight said.
On Oct. 20, Benjamin Cole is set for execution for the 2002 killing of his 9-month-old baby in Claremore.
|MORE| Judge rules Oklahoma executions don’t violate constitutional rights of inmates
Then, on Nov. 17, the state plans to put Richard Fairchild to death. Fairchild is on Death Row for beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993 in Del City.
On December 15, John Hanson is set to be executed for shooting and killing Mary Bowles during a 1999 carjacking in Tulsa.
And on Jan. 12, Scott Eizember will be executed. He was sentenced to death for killing AJ and Patsy Cantrell of Depew in 2003. They were his ex-girlfriend’s neighbors.
|MORE| Tentative execution date scheduled for man convicted of killing Tulsa officer
Oklahoma’s attorney general fought to have executions reinstated, winning a federal court case over the method the state uses. He said today that family members have waited decades for justice in these cases.