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Oklahoma kills

By cdw

via the AP : A man convicted of battering his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son and stuffing the dead body in a freezer has been put to death in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie says 48-year-old Donald Gilson was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m.. Gilson was convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 for the death of 8-year-old Shane Coffman. The boy’s remains were found in an abandoned freezer outside a mobile home in rural Cleveland County. An autopsy showed two fractures to the boy’s skull, a tooth missing from his right jaw and fractures to his collarbone, shoulder blades, ribs, legs and spine. Gilson became the second person to be executed this year in Oklahoma.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).