Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution.
No court in the state has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation and sentenced David Ware to death for the murder of Tulsa Police Sgt. Craig Johnson.
Since then, the state has executed 10 men at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the latest being convicted child murderer Kevin Underwood on Dec. 19. Three death-row prisoners have exhausted their appeals and could be put to death in 2025 at 90-day intervals, as requested by Attorney General Gentner Drummond to accommodate corrections staff…