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"Oklahoma: Execution rate slows to lowest in a decade," is the AP report from Missouri's Joplin Globe.The number of inmates put to death in Oklahoma in 2008 reached its lowest level in more than a decade, with just two convicted killers receiving a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. That was the fewest number of executions in Oklahoma since 1997, when just one inmate was put to death. But death penalty experts say the dip in executions in Oklahoma had little to do with a de facto moratorium on the death penalty issued earlier this year while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of lethal injection. Rather, it?s more the cyclical nature of when death sentences are handed down and when inmates finally exhaust the lengthy appeals process in capital cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).