An Oklahoma death-row inmate convicted of raping and killing a University of Oklahoma dance student in 1996 is seeking to have his death sentence thrown out, alleging in a court filing that his late father is the actual killer.
Scheduled execution dates for seven inmates on death row in Oklahoma were pushed back on Tuesday after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted a motion filed by the state’s new attorney general.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that the historic Kickapoo Reservation in the central part of the state was disestablished more than a century ago and no longer exists.
A proposal by Oklahoma’s new attorney general to push back scheduled execution dates for death-row inmates may spark new debate over stresses faced by those charged with carrying out lethal injections.
McALESTER, Oklahoma – The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a second motion for an evidentiary hearing in the case of a death row inmate, although his attorney says new