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| Death row inmate set to be executed today |
| By mcalesternews.com - Rachel Petersen |
| Published: 01/05/2012 |
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McALESTER — Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row inmate Gary Roland Welch is scheduled to be executed today at the prison at 6 p.m. Welch’s execution is the first scheduled in the United States in the year 2012. He received his death sentence for the Aug. 25, 1994, slaying of 35-year-old Robert Dean Hardcastle in Miami, Okla. Welch is one of two men convicted of killing Hardcastle in Miami, Okla. Both Welch and his co-defendant in the case, Claudie Delbert Conover, were convicted of beating and stabbing Hardcastle to death with a knife and broken bottle on the side of the road in view of those who were passing by. Both men were sentenced to death, though Conover’s sentence was later reduced to life without the possibility of parole. Conover died of natural causes on Dec. 19, 2001, while incarcerated at Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy, said Oklahoma Department of Corrections Public Relations Officer Jerry Massie. Welch has continued to maintain that his killing of Hardcaslte was in self-defense. However, Welch’s death sentence has been upheld by all courts, as all of his appeals have been denied. Read More. |
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