Michael Dewayne Smith, convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City over two decades ago, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He is the first person to be executed in Oklahoma this year.
McALESTER, Okla. — A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning.
Smith, 41, was sentenced to die in the separate shooting deaths of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in February 2002. He is the first person executed in Oklahoma this year and the 12th put to death since the state resumed executions in 2021 following a nearly seven-year hiatus resulting from problems with executions in 2014 and 2015.
“I didn’t commit these crimes. I didn’t kill these people,” Smith said, occasionally breaking into tears during his 15-minute address to the board, which denied him clemency in a 4-1 vote. “I was high on drugs. I don’t even remember getting arrested.” Prosecutors say Smith was a ruthless gang member who killed both victims in misguided acts of revenge and confessed his involvement in the killings to police and two other people.
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