Maryland Resumes it's use of the Death Penalty:Oken Executed
Friday, June 18, 2004 at 03:22PM
TheSpook
With his appeals exhausted and a request for
clemency denied, a man convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of a
newlywed was executed by injection. Steven Oken was put to death at
9:18 p.m. Thursday, a Maryland prison spokeswoman said. Witnesses
described the procedure, which lasted between seven and eight minutes,
as peaceful. [more]
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