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Mar 22, 2021

Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of March 15, 2021

NEWS (3/18/21) — Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction and death sentence imposed on Alton Nolen in the September 2014 murder of a co-worker after Nolen had been suspended for threatening another co-worker. The court upheld Nolen’s death sentence against a challenge that he was ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability and that the jury’s rejection of his intellectual disability claim was against the weight of the evidence. Viewing…