Oklahoma Prepares to Execute Man for 2002 Double Slaying

Published on April 4, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY—Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago. Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday after his conviction and death sentence for the slayings of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in separate shootings in February 2002. Mr. Smith would be the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the twelfth inmate put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 following a nearly seven-year hiatus resulting from problems with executions in 2014 and 2015. During a clemency hearing last month, Mr. Smith expressed his “deepest apologies and deepest sorrows to the families” of the victims, but denied that he was responsible....

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