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A Black man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City is executed by lethal injection. He denies responsibility.

Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate who was convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal

A man convicted of shooting and killing two people, including an Indian, in the US state of Oklahoma in 2002 was executed on Thursday.

Smith was convicted of fatally shooting two individuals in Oklahoma City over twenty years ago

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A 41-year-old man was executed through lethal injection in Oklahoma, US, for shooting dead two people, including an Indian student, in 2002. The 24-year-old Indian, Sharath Pulluru, was described as a "smart young man with a kind heart".

Smith maintained his innocence during a clemency hearing last month, insisting: “I didn’t commit these crimes. I didn’t kill these people. I was high on drugs. I don’t even remember getting arrested.”

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago. Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday after his conviction and death sentence for the slayings of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in separate shootings in February 2002. Smith would be the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the twelfth inmate put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 following a near...

Smith was convicted of killing two women in Oklahoma in 2002 yet he claims he is innocent and was 'high on drugs' - prosecutors say he remains a 'danger to society', however

Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith is scheduled to be executed at 10:00 a.m. local time Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after his conviction for killing Janet Moore and Sharath Pulluru.