Crime & Justice

Prisoner Executed in Oklahoma for 2002 Murder of His Baby Girl

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Benjamin Cole had sued the state for its corporal punishment policies.

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Oklahoma Department of Corrections

A man convicted of the 2002 grisly murder of his 9-month-old daughter was executed at 10:22 a.m. in Oklahoma after he sued the state for its corporal punishment policies, joining a class action with dozens of other death row inmates that claimed the practice was unconstitutional.

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