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A 41-year-old man was executed through lethal injection in Oklahoma, US, for shooting dead two people, including an Indian student, in 2002. The 24-year-old Indian, Sharath Pulluru, was described as a "smart young man with a kind heart".
Smith maintained his innocence during a clemency hearing last month, insisting: “I didn’t commit these crimes. I didn’t kill these people. I was high on drugs. I don’t even remember getting arrested.”
Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago. Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday after his conviction and death sentence for the slayings of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in separate shootings in February 2002. Smith would be the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the twelfth inmate put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 following a nearly seven-year hiatus resulting from problems with executions in 2014 and 2015.
Smith was convicted of killing two women in Oklahoma in 2002 yet he claims he is innocent and was 'high on drugs' - prosecutors say he remains a 'danger to society', however
Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith is scheduled to be executed at 10:00 a.m. local time Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after his conviction for killing Janet Moore and Sharath Pulluru.