Oklahoma Man Executed by Lethal Injection
An Oklahoma man was executed today for the 1993 slayings of his girlfriend and her son. Julius R. Young was executed by Lethal Injection after a 14 year stay on death row. Young was the 175th person to be put to death in Oklahoma since Oklahoma instituted the death penalty in 1915.
Oklahoma has executed a total of 172 men and 3 women between 1915 and 2010 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Eighty-two were executed by electrocution, one by hanging (a federal prisoner) and 92 by lethal injection. The last execution by electrocution took place in 1966. The first execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma occurred on September 10, 1990, when Charles Troy Coleman, convicted in 1979 of Murder 1st Degree in Muskogee County was executed.
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