Oklahoma Schedules First Executions Since 2015

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : They either didn't challenge the protocol or offer an alternative method of execution," O'Connor said in a statement at the time. "
47% : Donald Anthony Grant, Gilbert Ray Postelle, and James Allen Coddington are also scheduled for execution next year.
42% : In 2016, two-thirds of Oklahomans voted to insert capital punishment into the constitution.
42% : Oklahoma voters passed a ballot measure that disallowed state courts from declaring the death penalty against the state's Constitution.
42% : Stitt and other state officials announced last year plans to resume execution by lethal injection after halting executions due to issues with drugs used.
40% : Additionally, the inmates last month who had joined a lawsuit challenging the state's lethal injection protocols were dropped because they did not designate an alternative method of execution to the three-drug combination that the state plans on using.
40% : Julius Darius Jones, convicted of capital murder in the 1999 shooting death of businessman Paul Howell in Edmond, is set for execution on Nov. 18.
39% : "The seven inmates to be scheduled for execution were convicted of heinous crimes.

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