After a federal judge denied death-row prisoners’ challenge to Oklahoma’s controversial and consistently botched lethal-injection protocol, Attorney General John O’Connor set 25 execution dates beginning in August 2022, once a month until 2025.  O’Connor broke a six-year freeze on executions in the state of Oklahoma after two botched executions in 2014 and 2015. These executions were botched due to the wrong drugs being administered and cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. The Report of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission’s recommendations has yet to be implemented. Unless there is a moratorium, 25 people will be executed in Oklahoma in a very short period of time. Ten people have already been exonerated from Oklahoma's Death Row, and there is a consensus of innocence across parties on several individuals with execution dates. 

Is now the time for Oklahoma to execute individuals? We don't believe so. We want a moratorium now! A moratorium would give time to:

1. Examine thoroughly and review the report of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission and implement recommendations
2. Ensure all claims of innocence and appeals are heard and reviewed
3. Ensure that no inhumane drugs are administered to individuals

Learn more here.

Petitions in individual cases are here.

Who we are:

OKLAHOMANS FOR GRACE
An alliance of faith leaders, community leaders, and advocates for a moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma in order to review and implement the recommendations of the report of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission, to allow for a review of all appeals and claims of innocence, and to ensure that Oklahoma is not administering inhumane drugs to any individual in the state’s custody.