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McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001.

Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder on Thursday after a divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected defense claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him a chance to choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, execution method. Matthew Reeves, 43, was put to death at Holman Prison after the court lifted a lower court order that had prevented corrections workers from executing the prisoner.

A death row inmate was put to death late Thursday after the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ...

MCALESTER — A tear rolled down the face of an admitted double-murderer as he mouthed something to witnesses on the other side of the death chamber glass.

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for Alabama to execute death row inmate Matthew Reeves using lethal injection.

Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder on Thursday after a divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected defense claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him a chance to choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, execution method. Matthew Reeves, 43, was put to death at Holman Prison after the court lifted a lower court order that had prevented corrections workers from executing the prisoner.

A poor reader, Matthew Reeves is intellectually disabled and wasn't capable of making a decision on the method of execution without assistance, his lawyers arg93ued.

An Oklahoma death row inmate is set for lethal injection Thursday after the nation’s top court denied his emergency stay.

The US state of Oklahoma is set to execute a disabled man by lethal injection.

The U.S. Supreme court has denied a request from a death row inmate in Oklahoma to stop his upcoming lethal injection.