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    Oklahoma death-row inmate may get ride to courthouse for marriage license

    McALESTER — A death-row inmate who was convicted of four murders may get out soon — just long enough to get a marriage license from the courthouse.

    That possibility has upset the families of his victims.

    “Totally unacceptable,” said Shelli Milner, whose brother, Donnie Swindle, was among those Gilbert Ray Postelle killed. “He laughed about it. He is an animal. He does not deserve to be outside those prison walls.”

    Postelle, 30, has told prison officials he is engaged to be married to Veronica Ward, 41, of Oklahoma City. He has told prison officials he has a minister lined up for the ceremony.

    http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/court...c67167a97.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    This wedding is a waste of time. Postelle is before the 10th Circuit- he'll probably be executed within 5 years. I hope his groupie enjoys her brief time in the spotlight.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Oklahoma death row inmate will not leave prison for marriage license

    McALESTER, Okla. – Gov. Mary Fallin says an Oklahoma death row inmate will not be allowed out of prison to get a marriage license.

    The Oklahoman reports 30-year-old Gilbert Ray Postelle in confined to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester after he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in connection with the shooting deaths of four people at a mobile home in Del City on Memorial Day in 2005.

    Prison officials had planned to take Postelle to the Pittsburg County courthouse to get the marriage license unless the court clerk agreed to come to the prison instead. But Fallin says Postelle will not be transported from the prison and that officials are discussing other alternatives.

    Fallin intervened after her office was contacted by the sister of a murder victim.

    She released the follow statement regarding the request:

    “Inmate Postelle will not be transported. We are discussing alternatives with the parties. But he will not be transported from the prison.” – Governor Mary Fallin

    https://www.google.com/amp/kfor.com/...g92oyA0-ww_0:0
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    State Death Row Inmate Marries Oklahoma City Woman

    A 30-year-old Oklahoma City man sitting on death row at the Oklahoma Penitentiary in McAlester is now married.

    Pittsburg County court records show Gilbert Ray Postelle was married on March 16, 2017 to 41-year-old Veronica Gale Ward of Oklahoma City.

    Gilbert and his 33-year-old brother David were charged in the murders of four people in a southeast Oklahoma City mobile home in 2005. Both were convicted in 2008. Gilbert was given the death sentence and David was sentenced to life without parole.

    Court records show Gilbert Postelle and Veronica Ward applied for a marriage license on March 8th, 2017 thanks to a video conference in which Postelle communicated from prison with the court clerk.

    http://m.newson6.com/story.aspx?stor...9&catId=112042
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    On March 20, 2018, oral argument will be heard in Postelle's appeal before the Tenth Circuit.

    https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/...h_2018_Cal.pdf

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    Postelle's panel will be made up of Judges Tymkovich (G.W. Bush), Lucero (Clinton) and Moritz (Obama).

    https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/...2018_Final.pdf

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    In today's opinions, the Tenth Circuit DENIED Postelle's appeal by a two-to-one vote. Judge Lucero dissented.

    https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/16/16-6290.pdf

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    On October 26, 2018, the Tenth Circuit DENIED Postelle's petition for en banc rehearing.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketP...nd%20Order.pdf

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Postelle's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    Case Numbers: (16-6290)
    Decision Date: August 27, 2018
    Rehearing Denied: October 26, 2018

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/18-8583.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Execution dates set for Julius Jones, 6 other Oklahoma death row inmates

    By The Oklahoman

    High-profile death row inmate Julius Jones has been scheduled for execution Nov. 18.

    The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday set execution dates for Jones and six other inmates convicted of murder.

    The court set the date for Jones even though the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has recommended Gov. Kevin Stitt commute his death sentence.

    The board voted 3-1 Sept. 13 to recommend his sentence be commuted to life in prison. If the governor agrees, Jones would be immediately eligible for parole.

    Stitt could choose to commute the sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He also could deny commutation.

    Oklahoma's new attorney general, John O'Connor, asked the court to schedule the execution dates.

    O'Connor made the request in August after a federal judge ruled six of the inmates could no longer participate in a legal challenge to the state's execution procedures.

    “The seven inmates to be scheduled for execution were convicted of heinous crimes,” O’Connor said in August. “They either didn't challenge the protocol or offer an alternative method of execution."

    The ongoing lawsuit focuses mainly on the use of a sedative, midazolam, in lethal injections.

    Jones, 41, is facing execution for the 1999 fatal shooting of an Edmond insurance executive during a carjacking. Jurors chose the death penalty as punishment at a 2002 trial.

    The victim, Paul Howell, was gunned down in his parents' driveway in Edmond after a back-to-school shopping trip with his daughters. Stolen was his 1997 Suburban.

    Jones claims that he is innocent, that the real killer framed him and that his trial was unfair.

    "I am not the only young Black male whose public defenders were overmatched, whose juries were biased, who were chewed up and spit out by a system that packs our prisons with people who look just like me," he wrote in a letter sent to the board.

    Millions signed a petition in his support after ABC in 2018 aired the documentary series, "The Last Defense," about his innocence claim.

    Oklahoma has not carried out an execution since 2015.

    Scheduled for execution first is John Marion Grant, 60, an armed robber who was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a prison kitchen worker in 1998.

    His execution was set for Oct. 28.

    Next is Jones.

    Third is Bigler Jobe Stouffer, 78, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 fatal shooting of a Putnam City elemetary school teacher. His execution was set for Dec. 9.

    Stouffer did not join dozens of other death row inmates in the legal challenge to the execution protocol. His attorney, though, told the Court of Criminal Appeals he will file his own challenge.

    Fourth is Wade Greely Lay, 60, who was sentenced to death for killing a security guard during a botched bank robbery in 2004. His execution was set for Jan. 6.

    Fifth is Donald A. Grant, 45, who was sentenced to death for killing two workers at the LaQuinta Inn in Del City during a 2001 robbery. His execution was set for Jan. 27.

    Sixth is Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, who was convicted of murdering four people on Memorial Day 2005 outside a trailer in Del City. He was sentenced to death for two of the murders and to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the other two.

    His execution was set for Feb. 17.


    Seventh is James Allen Coddington, 49, who was sentenced to death for killing a Choctaw man in 1997 during a cocaine binge. His execution was set for March 10.

    O'Connor initally had asked for earlier dates. He revised his request when the appeals court did not act. He told the court he was doing so so that inmates will get a required notice and to allow the parole board time to conduct clemency hearings.

    In the order, the judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals found that the setting of execution dates is now appropriate and required by law.

    They acknowledged in a footnote that they are aware of Jones' commutation request. They wrote "this Court's duty to set a date certain is dictated" by law because there is currently no stay in effect.

    https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/...es/8384218002/

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