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Phillip Dean Hancock

59 years old · died April 25, 2024 · Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, was executed by three-drug lethal injection on April 25, 2024, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was declared dead at 11:29 a.m. The state's clemency board had recommended clemency, but the governor declined to commute his sentence.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Oklahoma Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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