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A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West said. After the first of three lethal drugs, midazolam, was administered, Smith, 41, appeared to shake briefly and attempt to lift his head from the gurney before relaxing.

Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Michael Dewayne Smith was convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago.

An Oklahoma death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday morning for a double slaying that happened more than two decades ago.Michael DeWayne Smith, 41, who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection, would be the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the 12th 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, The Associated Press reported.Smith was convicted of killing Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in separate shootings in February 2002.He continued to profess...

Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate who was convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago.