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Taylor, 58, maintains he was thousands of miles away when his girlfriend and her three children were killed.

Ruiz, 43, is set to receive a lethal injection for the killing of Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix.

The state's new attorney general asked Oklahoma's Court of Criminal Appeals to slow down the pace of upcoming executions.

Eizember, 62, is to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10 a.m. local time on January 12.

Fratta, 65, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas on January 10.

Fratta's attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the execution, arguing that prosecutors withheld evidence that a witness was hypnotized by investigators.

Eighteen men were put to death in the U.S. this year, with more than half of them in Texas and Oklahoma.

The first inmate put to death by lethal injection in the U.S. was Charles Brooks Jr. on December 7, 1982.

Pizzuto's attorney Deborah Czuba welcomed the news, but criticized the state's decision to obtain a death warrant while being unprepared for an execution.

"My dad is the most important person in my life. He has been there for me my whole life, even though he's been incarcerated," Corionsa "Khorry" Ramey said.

Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr., who has late-stage bladder cancer, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on December 15.

Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on November 17.

Richard Fairchild was convicted for the November 1993 killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son, Adam Broomhall.

Murray Hooper, 76, who was convicted of murdering two people in 1980, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on November 16.

Beatty, 61, was sentenced to death for strangling his mother, Carolyn Click, after they argued in her East Texas home in November 2003.

The 57-year-old death row inmate died by lethal injection on Thursday despite calls from his attorneys to stay the execution considering his mental health.

They were among 61 Oklahoma legislators calling for a new evidentiary hearing ahead of Glossip's September execution date..

Coddington is the first of 25 inmates whose execution dates were set last month after a federal judge rejected their challenge to Oklahoma's execution protocol.

James, 50, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 shooting to death of his ex-girlfriend Faith Hall.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for 25 death row inmates after a federal judge upheld the state's lethal injection protocol.

Atwood, 66, was sentenced to death for the 1984 killing of 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson.

Attorneys for the inmates had argued that the use of the sedative midoazolam violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Citing lethal drug supply issues, the governor's office has issued several delays to inmates.

Clarence Dixon, 66, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for the 1978 killing of 21-year-old student Deana Bowdoin.

James Irby, Buntion's victim, was a 37-year-old police officer with a wife and two young children when he was murdered during a traffic stop almost 32 years ago.

The Arizona Supreme Court set a May 11 execution date for Dixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of an Arizona State University student.

Within a span of the last four months, the state has now executed four prisoners, one of which reportedly convulsed and vomited during his execution.

The chamber was built in 2008, but there have been no executions in the state since 2006.

After a federal judge's ruling, Donald Grant is scheduled to be executed later this month, and Gilbert Postelle is set to be executed next month.

"While it may be gruesome to look at, we all agree it will be quicker," attorney Jim Stronski said about the use of firing squads instead of lethal injection.