Two decades after gunning down a trooper, death row inmate may never be executed
OKLAHOMA CITY — A death row inmate who claimed he is the antichrist and cannot die remains exempt from execution.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A death row inmate who claimed he is the antichrist and cannot die remains exempt from execution.
A judge ruled in 2017 that murderer Ricky Ray Malone is incompetent. The attorney general noted in a legal filing in October his status is the same.
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler contends that the releases are coming because the state no longer has room for all the mentally ill who need in-patient treatment.
An Oklahoma County judge will have final say on any day passes, conditional release or eventual discharge from the state mental hospital in Vinita.
A class-action lawsuit accuses Oklahoma of failing to treat jail inmates with mental illness, leaving them to languish behind bars