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Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed Cathy Stocker to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Thursday. She replaces Kelly Doyle, who abruptly resigned in March.
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South Carolina's governor signed a law last year forcing death row inmates to choose the manner of their execution: either by firing squad or electric chair if lethal injection is not possible.
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Oklahoma's secrecy laws allow the state to obscure where it gets lethal injection drugs. Given the state's track record, the critics say, that shouldn't be the case.
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Gilbert Ray Postelle was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:14 a.m. Thursday morning. He's the fourth death row inmate to be killed since the state resumed capital punishment in October after a six-year moratorium.
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Donald Anthony Grant was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:16 a.m. Thursday morning. He's the third death row inmate to be killed since the state resumed capital punishment in October after a six-year moratorium.
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The episode features reports on Oklahoma's death penalty, new redistricting lines and the First Americans Museum.
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Death row inmate Bigler Stouffer II was executed Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to Julius Jones on Thursday, less than four hours before he was scheduled to be executed.
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In some of Oklahoma’s death row cases, the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in at the last minute, but in the case of Julius Jones, the decision about his execution is entirely in the hands of the governor.
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By a vote of 3 to 2, the board recommended clemency for death row inmate Bigler Jobe Stouffer II. Its recommendation is for life without the possibility of parole.