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Death Penalty · OklahomaA man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West said. Smith, 41, was sentenced to die in the separate shooting deaths of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in February 2…See the Story
Oklahoma executes man convicted of double slaying in 2002
64% Center coverage: 76 sources
Charter Schools · OklahomaOklahoma’s Republican attorney general urged the state’s highest court on Tuesday to stop the creation of what would be the nation’s first publicly funded Catholic charter school.See the Story
Oklahoma court considers whether to allow the US' first publicly funded Catholic school
54% Center coverage: 26 sources
Politics · EnidVoters in the northwest Oklahoma city of Enid will decide whether to recall a city councilor with ties to white supremacist groups. Judd Blevins was elected last year to a city council seat in this community of just over 50,000 residents in the heart of the state’s wheat plains. See the Story
An Oklahoma council member with ties to white nationalists faces scrutiny, and a recall election
53% Left coverage: 17 sources
Joko Widodo · IndonesiaIndonesia’s top court heard appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls in appearances before the judges Wednesday.See the Story
Indonesia’s top court hears election appeals of candidates who lost and want a revote
56% Center coverage: 27 sources
Crime · Burkina FasoWomen slain with babies wrapped against their bodies, lifeless children intertwined together, a 2-month-old face-up on the ground with puppies crawling on his tiny frame. The scenes were horrifying, but the 32-year-old farmer felt he had to document them, as proof of the carnage in his central Burkina Faso village.See the Story
Burkina Faso's security forces are killing more civilians. Survivors detailed 1 village's massacre
47% Left coverage: 17 sources
