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Oklahoma Executes Inmate for 1993 Shooting Deaths

An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of a couple during a home invasion. In the final moments before he was injected with lethal drugs, George Ochoa maintained he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Francisco Morales, 38, and Maria Yanez, 35, on Oklahoma City's south side. Strapped to a gurney with his arms outstretched, he proclaimed,...Full Story
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