Posted on 04/04/2024 11:17:33 AM PDT by Morgana
An Oklahoma man convicted in the murder of two people in Oklahoma City more than 20 years ago has been executed, marking the first death by capital punishment in the state this year.
Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Thursday morning and was pronounced dead at 10:20 am, according to a spokesperson from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections..
Smith declined to request a final meal. Chief of Public Relations Kay Thompson told DailyMail.com that the inmate was provided canteen items and that he was a vegetarian.
The 41-year-old was convicted in the separate shooting deaths of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in February 2002.
He is the first person executed in the state this year and the 12th since the state resumed capital punishment in 2021. This followed a nearly seven-year hiatus that came in response to a series of bungled executions.
During a clemency hearing last month, Smith apologized to the victims´ families while insisting that he was not responsible for their deaths.
'I didn't commit these crimes. I didn't kill these people,' Smith said. 'I was high on drugs. I don't even remember getting arrested.'
Before the hearing, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested that Smith be denied clemency.
Smith killed both victims as part of a 'double-murder spree simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time,' Drummond said.
The inmate shed tears during his 15-minute address to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board before he was denied clemency in a 4-1 vote.
After the first of three lethal drugs, midazolam, was administered on Thursday morning, Smith trembled and attempted to raise his head before his body slackened.
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May God have mercy on his soul
and
Don't do drugs M'Kay drugs are bad M'Kay
Too bad we can’t do the same for the traitors currently occupying our government. Arming our enemies, financing our enemies, assisting foreign military, terrorists, gang members to invade the country, creating a collusion hoax for an attempted coup, siding against our allies, fixing an election, and worst of all most likely getting a foreign country to release a deadly virus for political advantage, but oh let’s not investigate that like the Russia collusion hoax was “investigated” because such an idea is sooo ludicrous isn’t it, especially from a party that assists an invasion.
Yet he wasn’t too high to forget the mission he had set for himself to carry out in the first place.
I guess someone tied him down, at the time, and made him take the drugs that made him high?
Michael, forget about it.
Evoking the “Non enim fruor” defense.
If he had killed them as a drunk driver so bombed out he didn’t remember getting in the car, would that be a successful defense? I didn’t commit the crime because I was awash in alcohol?
Unless that can bring your victims back, tough luck. Don’t do drugs, Einstein.
But but but but he was an aspiring rapper, who was just turning his life around!
Five will get you ten, he doesn’t remember being executed either.
Irrelevant.
You did it.
Guilt is based on actions, not intent or memory.
No one put a gun to his head and told him to get high.
It ain't ‘’society's fault'', it ain't ''the drugs'' IT'S HIM!
>> seven-year hiatus that came in response to a series of bungled executions. <<
What is a bungled execution when its purpose is successfully accomplished?
Twenty years ago.
THAT is why there is validity to the opinion that the death sentence is not a deterrent.
The individual is responsible for all his actions from the moment when he takes the first pill/jab/snort or whatever.
To avoid being executed for a murder while under drugs, don’t take the danm drugs!
When will mommas ever learn to NEVER give their baby boys any form of the name Dwayne/Wayne?
All things considered, I would rather receive the death penalty and immediate termination instead of a life in prison. But that’s just me......
😂 Aren’t they all?
***to a series of bungled executions. ***
I remember one in Oklahoma. A young man murdered his x-girlfriend and her new guy. Definitely cold blood. Sentenced to death in Oklahoma they set the date, then about 30 days after that date they realized they forgot to do it. So they changed it to life in prison.
The classic Hunter Defense.
Similar to the Brandon Defense where you were too senile to be held accountable.
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