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  US: Man executed in Oklahoma for double murder, including of Indian national, in 2002

  World | April 05, 2024 16:49 IST

  Michael Dewayne Smith was 19 when he killed Indian national Sharath Pullaru, 24, and Janet Moore, 40, in separate incidents on February 22, 2002. Notably, Oklahoma resumed death penalties in 2021 after two botched executions prompted a seven-year pause.

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  Man executed for pipe bomb death of US officer

  World | February 27, 2014 14:05 IST

  Starke, Florida: A drug trafficker who placed a pipe bomb in a gift-wrapped microwave oven in a plot to kill two potential murder witnesses was executed for the 1992 death of a Florida highway officer