of Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) has reset state execution schedules, slowing the pace of progress on the 25 executions approved in July 2022.
Order issued on 24 January 2023 Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (Pictured) On January 17, we rescheduled execution dates for seven men who were due to be executed between February 16 and August 3, 2023.starts with Richard Grossiphe is now on his ninth execution date.
The order throws Oklahoma’s plan to execute more than half of the state’s death row inmates over a 29-month period from August 2022 to December 2024. This is an unprecedented pace in Oklahoma history. An earlier court-approved schedule stipulated that all but one of her 11 executions scheduled for 2023 would be carried out within four weeks of his last execution. rice field.
Drummond filed the motion three days after taking office as Attorney General, shortly after witnessing the execution of Scott Eisenber on January 12, 2023. The compressed execution schedule “puts an undue burden on the DOC and his staff,” he wrote. Drummond asked OCCA to reset the execution date to his 60-day interval.
OCCA complied with Drummond’s request. The new schedule has him scheduled for four execution dates in 2023 and three more execution dates in 2024. Jemaine Cannon from his March 9th to his July 20th. Anthony Sanchez from his April 6th to September 21st. Philip Hancock said he was from May 4th to November 30th. Michael Smith from his July 6, 2023 to his April 4, 2024. Wade Lay’s He’s From Aug 3, 2023 To He’s Jun 6, 2024.
The court said the remaining scheduled execution dates “have not been confirmed” and said it would address those dates “at an appropriate time in the future.”
