"Oklahoma Executes Death Row Inmate Michael Dewayne Smith for 2002 Double Killing"

Oklahoma executed Michael Dewayne Smith for the 2002 murders of Janet Moore and Sharath Pulluru. Smith, 41, was put to death by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Ahead of the execution, protesters gathered to call for an end to the death penalty in Oklahoma. The attorney general stated that the victims were good people who did not deserve their fate, and Smith's family delivered a petition to the governor, claiming new evidence showed witnesses were coerced during the trial.