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Oklahoma: Terminally ill man executed in Oklahoma
“He never had remorse,” said Jackie Barker, Raymond Prentice’s sister-in-law. “He didn’t have remorse the first time. He didn’t have remorse the second time.”
Bland spent 20 years of a 60-year sentence in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping charges in Raymond Prentice’s death. He had been out of prison less than a year when he was accused of killing Rains.
“If they’d have kept him in jail, the second man would not have been killed,” Barker said.
Members of Prentice’s family said they were not troubled by Bland’s medical condition.
“We’ve had cancer in our family,” said Traci Cox, Prentice’s niece. “He had the easy way out. He didn’t have to suffer.”
Members of Rains’ family declined to speak with reporters following the execution.
Bland is the first terminally ill inmate to face execution in the state. In August 1995, convicted killer Robert Brecheen, 40, was executed by lethal injection following an apparent attempt to take his own life with a drug overdose.
Bland was arrested two days after Rains’ death for driving under the influence while driving a vehicle owned by Rains. Bland, who did construction and handyman work for Rains, confessed to killing Rains and hiding his body.
The first person put to death by the state this year was Corey Duane Hamilton, 38, on Jan. 9 for the execution-style slaying of four fast-food employees during a robbery in 1992.
An Aug. 21 execution is scheduled for death row inmate Frank Duane Welch, who was convicted of murder in the 1987 death of 29-year-old Jo Talley Cooper at her Norman home.
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