Gentner Drummond issued a statement following the execution of Kendrick Simpson at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The statement was published on the Oklahoma Attorney General’s official website.
Simpson was sentenced to death for the 2006 drive-by shootings that killed Glen Palmer, 20, and Anthony Jones, 19, in Oklahoma City. He was executed after spending 20 years on death row.
In his statement, Drummond said justice had been served for the victims and expressed hope that the execution would bring some measure of peace to their families…