Oklahoma Executes Kendrick Simpson for 2006 Double Drive‑By Killing After Clemency Denial
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Oklahoma executed Kendrick Simpson Thursday, pronouncing him dead at 10:19 a.m. CT at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for a 2006 drive‑by double killing prosecutors say involved him firing about 20 rounds from an assault rifle into the victims’ car after a nightclub altercation; the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a late appeal Wednesday and the state used a three‑drug lethal‑injection protocol. Simpson, whose lawyers had raised PTSD and a violent history after moving from New Orleans post‑Katrina, apologized in a clemency hearing—“I apologize for murdering your sons. I don't make any excuses.”—and received a final meal of a bacon cheeseburger, large onion rings and a strawberry milkshake.
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