Crime & Justice

Oklahoma to Execute One Inmate Almost Every Month Until 2025

STAGGERING

Twenty-five prisoners are set to be executed via lethal injection over 29 months.

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Oklahoma wasted no time in setting dates for 25 executions after a judge ruled in June that its lethal injection process was constitutional. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday scheduled executions for six inmates, and then later added dates for 19 more, The Washington Post reports.

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