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In an unusual move, Oklahomas Pardon and Parole Board recommended that Gov. Kevin Stitt commute Emmanuel Littlejohns death sentence to life without parole.
Marcellus Williams would have been sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Instead, the Sept. 24 execution date is still on.
Taberon Dave Honie was killed with a lethal injection of pentobarbital.
After reevaluating Gonzales, psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon wrote that he does not pose a threat of future danger to society."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
David Hosier, who is weeks away from execution, is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as a medical emergency."
Smith's execution draws attention to the disproportion of capital punishment among Black people, drug users and those with intellectual disabilities.
Brian Dorsey is a rare case where those of us who sit in judgment of a man convicted of capital murder got it wrong, according to a former judge who upheld his death sentence.
Judge Natalia Cornelio found that Jeffery Prevost received ineffective legal assistance at trial.
The state used 58-year-old Smith as a test subject in the new execution method just over a year after he survived a botched lethal injection execution attempt.
Kenneth Smith has previously said that he is terrified by the prospect of being killed with nitrogen gas.