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Muskogee Daily Phoenix
April 25, 2018
Before he died in a plane crash, Episcopal priest Bill Wiseman, father of Oklahoma's lethal injection execution law, confessed, “I'm sorry for what I did. I wanted to make capital punishment kinder. Instead, I made it easier. I now preach for its abolition.” And Dr. Rita Cowan said, “There is only one who has theÃâà...
Tulsa World
March 23, 2018
It was a state legislator named Bill Wiseman who in 1977 came up with the idea of lethal injection by asking the state medical examiner for a more humane, scientific way to put ... Allbaugh and state Attorney General Mike Hunter said Oklahoma could begin the nitrogen executions by the end of this year.
The Marshall Project
March 15, 2018
Oklahoma has always been the nation's laboratory for capital punishment. It was a state legislator named Bill Wiseman who in 1977 came up with the idea of lethal injection by asking the state medical examiner for a more humane, scientific way to put human beings to death. It looks like Oklahoma might beÃâà...
New Republic
May 1, 2017
The continuing controversy surrounding America's reliance on lethal injection for capital punishment was vividly on display in the four executions Arkansas carried out ... Since the earliest recorded execution in the United States in 1608, our country has put to death approximately 16,000 men and women.
Newsweek
May 1, 2017
Related: Arkansas executions: The inmates' last meals. Chapman is widely called the “father of the lethal injection.” In the late 1970s, when Chapman was Oklahoma's medical examiner, a state legislator named Bill Wiseman asked him to help come up with a more humane way to kill prisoners thanÃâà...
TIME
May 15, 2014
Bill Wiseman called me one day and asked if I had suggestions about a more humane way that inmates could be executed. This came on the heels of the Gary Gilmore execution [the first death row inmate to be executed after the Supreme Court lifted a four-year moratorium], which was a real media circus.
News On 6
May 1, 2014
Bill Wiseman was a Republican house member from south Tulsa, elected in 1974, who loved the game of politics. He hoped ... Lots of times, for me at least, worked at cross-purposes with what that still small voice would say on issues like capital punishment and other things," Wiseman said in 2005. In 1972Ãâà...
