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Oklahoman executed for 4 killings in '05
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Oklahoman executed for 4 killings in '05
At a trial set to begin February 28 in Oklahoma City federal court, more than two dozen death row inmates are asking a judge to find the state’s execution procedure unconstitutional due to the danger of it causing severe pain to the condemned prisoner.
Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, was killed at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, on Thursday at 10.06am for murdering four people at the request of his father when he was a teenager.
Gilbert Postelle was put to death for the murders of four people at a mobile home park in 2005
"In her final moments, Amy Wright was screaming and clawing the ground to escape from Gilbert Postelle," prosecutors told the parole board.