Smith maintained his innocence during a clemency hearing last month, insisting: “I didn’t commit these crimes. I didn’t kill these people. I was high on drugs. I don’t even remember getting arrested.”
Oklahoma executes man convicted of double slaying in 2002 wbrc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbrc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Oklahoma Man Scheduled To Be Executed For Murders From 2002 khits.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from khits.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago. Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday after his conviction and death sentence for the slayings of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in separate shootings in February 2002. Smith would be the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the twelfth inmate put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 following a nearly seven-year hiatus resulting from problems with executions in 2014 and 2015.