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Gilbert Postelle is set to be executed at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for the deaths of four people in 2005.

Within a span of the last four months, the state has now executed four prisoners, one of which reportedly convulsed and vomited during his execution.

Oklahoma has executed death row inmate Gilbert Postelle for killing four people on Memorial Day in 2005.

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005. Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, and prison officials declared him dead at 10:14 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution since October, when the state resumed lethal injections following a nearly seven-year hiatus. Postelle, who was lying on a gurney with his arms outstretched beside him, declined to give any last words and glanced a few times at the seven witnesses who were in the viewing room next to the execution chamber as the execution beg...

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005.