It was later discovered that Oklahoma had used an incorrect and unauthorized drug in the lethal ... Oklahoma agreed to pause executions as investigations into what went wrong got underway.

She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time ... should be thrown out because not only was Smith high on the drug PCP but he was also mentally incapable of telling the truth.

Alabama, Texas, and Georgia already have carried out executions, according to a database ... told the parole board he was hallucinating from drug use when he confessed to police.

The lethal injection of Smith, who had been on death row for about 20 years, highlights the concerns about the overlap of the death penalty with issues of Blackness, drug use and intellectual ...

State plans to kill 25 prisoners in less than three years but officials had sought to increase gap between executions from 60 ... as the first of a three-drug cocktail. In the letter, Drummond ...

He is the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the 12th put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 ... simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time ...