Oklahoma
State update
Link to Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Link to death penalty statute
Link to execution statute
Date death penalty reenacted
May 17, 1973
Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?
Yes; also if they solicit another person to commit the murder or for Rape or forcible sodomy of a victim under 14 where the defendant had a prior conviction of sexual abuse of a person under 14
How is the sentence determined?
Jury
Location of death row(s)
McAlester (Women: McLoud)
Clemency process
Governor has authority to grant clemency if the Board of Pardons and Paroles advises accordingly
Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)
Usually around 6:00 pm
Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973
8
Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973
- Charles Ray Giddens, 1981
- Clifford Henry Bowen, 1986
- Richard Neal Jones, 1988
- Gregory R. Wilhoit, 1993
- Adolph Munson, 1995
- Robert Lee Miller, Jr., 1998
- Ronald Keith Williamson, 1999
- Curtis Edward McCarty, 2007
