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| Oklahoma Executes Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 02/12/2001 |
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A man who was on Oklahoma's death row since 1979, longer than any other inmate, was executed on last week for a barroom murder. D.L. Jones, 61, was pronounced dead six minutes after receiving a lethal injection at an Oklahoma state prison, Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said. Jones had been on Oklahoma's death row more than 20 years for shooting 48-year-old Stanley Buck during a brawl in a bar in Lawton. Prosecutors said Jones killed Buck and wounded Buck's son after threatening to kill everyone in the bar. They said he acted because he had been spurned by Betty Jean Strain, who was also wounded. Jones' lawyers had argued he was legally insane because of medication he was taking at the time. The long wait for execution was caused by a number of twists during his appeals process, including the death of an appellate lawyer, and ultimately unsuccessful efforts to win a new trial. It was the 38th execution since Oklahoma reinstated the death penalty in 1977 and resumed executions in 1990 and the eighth since the start of the year, with two others scheduled in February. |
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