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McALESTER, Okla. -- A man who claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two men in Oklahoma City in 2001 was executed on Thursday.
Phillip Hancock was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the 2001 double murders of Robert Jett Jr and James Lynch who he claimed he shot in self defence after they forced him inside a cage
McALESTER, Okla. -- A man who claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two men in Oklahoma City in 2001 was executed on Thursday.
Phillip Hancock has long claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two people. Hancock’s execution went forward once Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to commute his sentence.
Phillip Dean Hancock is the fourth Oklahoma inmate to be executed this year and the 11th since Oklahoma resumed executions in October 2021 following a nearly six-year hiatus