Michael Dewayne Smith denied killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago.
Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10.20am, Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West said.
Smith appeared to stop breathing about a minute later. The doctor re-entered the execution chamber at 10.19am and checked for a pulse before Harpe announced the time of death. Moore's son Phillip Zachary Jr and niece Morgan Miller-Perkins witnessed the execution from behind one-way glass. Attorney General Gentner Drummond read a statement on their behalf that said in part: "Justice has been served."
During a clemency hearing last month, Smith expressed his "deepest sorrows" to the victims' families, but denied he was responsible."I didn't commit these crimes. I didn't kill these people," Smith said, occasionally breaking into tears during his 15-minute address to the board, which denied him clemency in a four to one vote. "I was high on drugs. I don't even remember getting arrested.
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