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John David Duty
John David Duty | |
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 Photo by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections | |
| Born | April 25, 1952 Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | December 16, 2010 (aged 58) |
| Cause of death | Execution by lethal injection |
| Other names | John David Hall |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Spouse | Pam Duty |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Charles Houston Duty Mildred Duty Hall |
| Conviction(s) | First degree murder Shooting with intent to kill Kidnapping Rape Robbery |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
John David Duty (April 25, 1952 – December 16, 2010) was an American who was executed in Oklahoma for first-degree murder. According to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, he was the first person in the United States to have been put to death with pentobarbital. A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental led the state to incorporate the substitution into its protocol for lethal injections.[1] Duty's case gained media attention because pentobarbital had typically been used to euthanize animals.[2][3]
Duty was sentenced to death for strangling a fellow inmate at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in December 2001. At the time, he had been serving a life sentence for a 1978 conviction of rape, robbery and shooting with intent to kill.[4] He did not contest the murder charge and vowed that he would kill again if he was not executed.[5]
Duty later filed appeals that the change to the method of execution could be inhumane, but was denied.[2] Though his case had gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court,[1] opponents of capital punishment claimed that Duty had manipulated the system to be executed as a method of escape from life imprisonment.[6] He was put to death at the same penitentiary where he had committed the murder nearly nine years earlier.[4]
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