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Updated: 12:08 PM CDT May 17, 2021 KOCO Staff Joe Allbaugh, former director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, has been appointed to fill the vacant seat on the Oklahoma County Jail Trust, officials announced Monday morning.According to a news release from the Oklahoma County Detention Center, during Monday’s Oklahoma County Commissioners meeting, members filled a seat on the Oklahoma County Jail Trust left vacant by the recent resignation of Tricia Everest. Everest resigned her seat last month after Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed her Secretary of Public Safety.In a two-to-one vote, commissioners appointed Allbaugh to the nine-member board. From 2016-2019, Allbaugh led the Oklahoma Department of Corrections through several issues, including an inmate population explosion, a staffing shortage and a crumbling prison infrastructure.As director, officials said Allbaugh convinced state legislative leaders to invest more than $116 million into the department
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A Pittsburg County jury recommended Jonathan Tubbs to serve life with parole for a first-degree murder charge in connection to February 2020 shooting death of his wife, Catrina Pope.Â
A Pittsburg County jury took nearly two hours to find a McAlester man guilty on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of his wife.
Jonathan James Tubbs, 40, was charged in February 2020 for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife, 37-year-old Catrina Pope.
The jury recommended Tubbs serve a sentence of life in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with the possibility of parole.
Tubbsâ attorney, Wes Cherry, asked for a pre-sentence investigation as part of the âappellate recordâ before his clientâs June 22 sentencing hearing.
The use of the death penalty globally is continuing to fall, an annual report by Amnesty International has said.Although 23 countries carried out executions in 2010, four more than in 2009, the number of people executed dropped from at least 714 to at least 527, the rights group said.But that figure does not include China, whose executions are thou
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COVID-19 precautions will remain in place in courtrooms as three cases are set for trial this month in Pittsburg County District Court.
Although Pittsburg County Commissioners lifted COVID-19 restrictions at the courthouse on April 30, the courtrooms are under judicial control.
District 18 District Judge Mike Hogan said he will ask jurors to wear a mask, but they will not be mandatory.
The judge said he will socially distance any juror that does not wear a mask.
Associate District Judge Tim Mills has a list of rules taped to his courtroom door that include a mandatory mask for everyone inside the courtroom and social distancing.