Oklahoma executes Michael Dewayne Smith for 2002 killings
The state of Oklahoma executed its first death row inmate of 2024 Thursday morning.
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The state of Oklahoma executed its first death row inmate of 2024 Thursday morning.
Smith was sentenced to die in the separate shooting deaths of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in February 2002.
A 41-year-old man convicted of shooting and killing two people, including an Indian, in the US state of Oklahoma in 2002 was executed on Thursday.
Oklahoma's first 2024 execution comes after a judge rejected requests to slow the timetable of lethal injections, brushing aside concerns of staff shortages and saying corrections teams needed to 'man up.'
Michael Dewayne Smith denied killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago.