Death row in Oklahoma: AG seeks adjustments to execution schedule in 2024
Six convicted murderers due to be executed would be impacted: Richard Norman Rojem, Emmanuel Littlejohn, Kevin Ray Underwood, Wendell Arden Grissom, Tremane Wood and Kendrick Antonio Simpson.
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The request "will allow ODOC to carry out the court-ordered warrants within a timeframe that will minimize the disruptions to normal operations," the agency's director said. The 90-day interval "also protects our team’s mental health and allows time for them to process and recover between the scheduled executions.”
Early last year, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted Attorney General Gentner Drummond's request to space out six executions approximately 60 days apart. Since that time, the state has executed three of the affected death row inmates.
One of the executions was stayed pending a competency hearing, and two others — Michael DeWayne Smith and Wade Greely Lay — are scheduled for later this year.
Kendrick Simpson
Name: Kendrick Simpson
Birthdate: 10/02/1980
Offense: First-degree murder, two death sentences
County Convicted: Oklahoma
Conviction date: 10/26/2007
On death row since: 11/5/2007.
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