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A person on loss of life row in Oklahoma was executed Thursday morning for the deadly capturing of two males in 2001 and made a single request for his last meal.
Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, requested solely fried hen — no sides — for his final meal, The Oklahoman reported, citing the Oklahoma Division of Corrections.
Hancock was declared lifeless at 11:29 a.m. after receiving a three-drug deadly injection on the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. His execution was delayed as Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt weighed whether or not to commute his sentence following a clemency advice from the state’s Pardon and Parole Board.
It was unclear why the governor’s resolution to disclaim clemency was delayed till shortly after the execution was initially scheduled.
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Phillip Hancock pictured June 29, 2011. Hancock, 59, is scheduled to obtain a three-drug deadly injection Nov. 30, 2023, on the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. (Oklahoma Division of Corrections by way of AP, File)
Hancock had lengthy claimed he shot and killed Robert Jett Jr., 37, and James Lynch, 58, in self-defense after the 2 males attacked him inside Jett’s house in south Oklahoma Metropolis. Hancock’s attorneys claimed at a clemency listening to this month Jett and Lynch had been members of outlaw bike gangs and that Jett lured Hancock, who was unarmed, to Jett’s house.
A feminine witness stated Jett ordered Hancock to get inside a big cage earlier than swinging a metallic bar at him. After Jett and Lynch attacked him, his attorneys stated, Hancock managed to take Jett’s pistol from him and shoot them each.
Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to grant Hancock clemency within the moments main as much as the convict’s execution Thursday morning. (Chris Kleponis/Polaris/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
“Please perceive the terrible scenario I discovered myself in,” Hancock advised members of the Pardon and Parole Board by way of a video feed from the penitentiary. “I’ve little question they’d have killed me. They compelled me to battle for my life.”
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However attorneys for the state argued Hancock gave differing accounts of what precisely occurred and that his testimony didn’t align with bodily proof.
Assistant Legal professional Normal Joshua Lockett additionally cited a witness who testified that after Hancock shot Jett inside the home, he adopted him into the yard. The witness recalled {that a} wounded Jett stated, “I’m going to die.” Hancock responded, “Sure, you might be,” earlier than capturing him once more, Lockett stated.
“Chasing somebody down, telling them you might be about to kill them after which doing it isn’t self-defense,” Lockett stated.
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Hancock is the fourth Oklahoma inmate to be executed this yr. The subsequent execution scheduled in Oklahoma is for James Ryder Feb. 1. Ryder was sentenced to loss of life for the 1999 killing of Daisy Hallum, 70, and to life with out parole for killing her son, Sam Hallum, 38, in Pittsburg County.
