2023-12-01 09:10:45
McAlester ∙ Oklahoma City’s death sentence for Phillip Dean Hancock, who was sentenced to death for a double murder, was carried out Thursday morning. He was 59 years old.
This is the state’s 11th execution since the death penalty resumed in late October 2021 after a hiatus of more than six years. The fourth to be executed this year. Philip Dean Hancock, who was sentenced to death for a 2001 double murder, was executed after Gov. Kevin Stitt rejected a plea for clemency. Hancock was pronounced dead at 11:29 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being injected with a lethal concoction.
In a final statement from Gurney, Hancock admitted to fatally shooting two people in Oklahoma City in 2001, but said he acted in self-defense.Hancock ate fried chicken and root beer for his last meal Wednesday.
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