Gentner Drummond will decide whether to file charges in cases involving Swadley’s restaurants and Commissioners of the Land Office once investigations conclude.
“I’m glad our enemy is dead,” said a family member of A.J. and Patsy Cantrell, who Eizember killed in 2003. Eizember, in his final statement, said “my conscience is clear, completely.”
Martinez was found by police sitting in the driver’s seat of his parked car. Oklahoma law forbids anyone convicted of a felony from serving in the Legislature.
The Frontier sued Pottawatomie County jail officials after they withheld records related to the death of Ronald Gene Given in 2019.
Fairchild, convicted in the brutal murder of a 3-year old boy, is the state’s fifth execution of 2022. Almost one-third of U.S. executions this year have taken place in Oklahoma.
One candidate has in the past threatened to set himself on fire over abortion and has little experience as a prosecutor. The other is a former prosecutor turned defense attorney who carries the baggage of being a Democrat in a deeply conservative state.
Cole is the sixth man Oklahoma has put to death since resuming executions in 2021. Three more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.
The Frontier found false and misleading claims from both candidates.
