Entries tagged with “Michael Smith”
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,Apr 04, 2024
Oklahoma Set to Carry Out Its First Execution of 2024, Attorney General Told to “Man Up” in Response to Concerns About Pace of Executions
Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Michael Smith on April 4, the state’s first execution of 2024. Convicted in 2003 for the separate 2002 murders of Janet Moore and Sharath Babu Pulluru in Oklahoma County, Mr. Smith has spent the last 21 years on death row. Following his arrest, Mr. Smith confessed to his involvement in these killings to the police, but now says that he “was high on drugs” during his interrogation and does not “even remember getting arrested.” On March 6, 2024, the Oklahoma…
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,Jan 24, 2023
Oklahoma Court Grants Attorney General’s Motion to Slow State’s Execution Spree
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) has reset the state’s execution schedule, slowing down the pace at which the 25-person execution spree it authorized in July 2022 would move forward. The order, issued January 24, 2023 in response to a motion filed by newly inaugurated Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (pictured) on January 17, rescheduled the execution dates of seven men who were to be put to death between February 16 and August 3, 2023. The court set new execution dates…