Three Republican House members are among those joining the call for a moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma
Rev. John-Mark Hart speaks as state Rep. Kevin McDugle, right, listens during a news conference. Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Oklahoma City. A group of Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma joined clergy and a former corrections official on Wednesday calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, the latest indication state officials have growing concerns about the state's brisk pace of lethal injections.
Glossip, who has long maintained his innocence, is scheduled to be executed on May 18 in the murder-for-hire killing of his former boss, but Oklahoma's new Attorney General Gentner Drummond hasMcDugle was joined at a press conference Wednesday by two other Republican lawmakers and says many more of his GOP colleagues support his effort. Among those requesting a moratorium was Adam Luck, an appointee of Republican Gov.
Opposition to the death penalty, even among conservatives, is growing across the U.S., said Richard Dieter, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than two-decade decline in the U.S., but support remains high in Oklahoma. A state ballot question in 2016 on whether to enshrine the death penalty in the Oklahoma Constitution received more than 65% of the vote.
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