Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976.[1] Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States.[2]
Oklahoma was the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as a method of execution.[3]
On June 10, 2022, the Attorney General of Oklahoma, John M. O'Connor, asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates. He requested the executions occur every four weeks on a Thursday, commencing on August 25.[4]
- ^ Executions in the United States, by state
- ^ State Execution Rates
- ^ A Guilty Man
- ^ Haynes, Danielle (June 10, 2022). "Oklahoma AG seeks to schedule 25 executions". United Press International. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
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