The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty says a national organization and its partner are driving a wedge between death-row inmates and their attorneys.
The Rev. Jeff Hood told Newsweek about his experience being in the execution chamber while Scott Eizember and Arthur Brown Jr. were put to death this year.
Jemaine Cannon, 51, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. This is the ninth execution since the state resumed lethal injections in 2021.
Fourteen convicted killers have been executed so far in 2023, beginning with the first transgender death row inmate to ever be put to death and culminating in an ongoing scandal over the safety of the practice.