Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Capital punishment continues to be performed in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States.Oklahoma was the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as method of executions. On December 16, 2010, Oklahoma became the first American state to use pentobarbital, in the execution of John David Duty.In 2014, Oklahoma placed scheduled executions on hold until the state's Department of Corrections implemented eleven proposed improvements in protocols governing capital punishment. The review of the lethal injection administration process resulted from the protracted 33 minute execution of Clayton Darrell Lockett in which a doctor and a paramedic failed nearly a dozen times to administer an IV with lethal drugs. Executions resumed on January 15, 2015 with the execution of Charles Frederick Warner by lethal injection.At least two death row inmates in Oklahoma were later found to be innocent and were released: Gregory R. Wilhoit (convicted 1987, exonerated 1993) and Ron Williamson (convicted 1988, exonerated 1999)."@en }
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- Capital_punishment_in_Oklahoma abstract "Capital punishment continues to be performed in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States.Oklahoma was the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as method of executions. On December 16, 2010, Oklahoma became the first American state to use pentobarbital, in the execution of John David Duty.In 2014, Oklahoma placed scheduled executions on hold until the state's Department of Corrections implemented eleven proposed improvements in protocols governing capital punishment. The review of the lethal injection administration process resulted from the protracted 33 minute execution of Clayton Darrell Lockett in which a doctor and a paramedic failed nearly a dozen times to administer an IV with lethal drugs. Executions resumed on January 15, 2015 with the execution of Charles Frederick Warner by lethal injection.At least two death row inmates in Oklahoma were later found to be innocent and were released: Gregory R. Wilhoit (convicted 1987, exonerated 1993) and Ron Williamson (convicted 1988, exonerated 1999).".