Maryland Resumes it's use of the Death Penalty:Oken Executed
With his appeals exhausted and a request for clemency denied, a man convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of a newlywed was executed by injection. Steven Oken was put to death at 9:18 p.m. Thursday, a Maryland prison spokeswoman said. Witnesses described the procedure, which lasted between seven and eight minutes, as peaceful. [more]