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~ Bigler Stouffer, 09Dec21, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 19, 2021, 2:55 am
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommends clemency for Bigler
Stouffer--
11/18/2021 at 1:13 am
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH, Nov. 17, 2021) — The Oklahoma Pardon and
Parole Board voted to recommend clemency for the 79-year-old
death row inmate Bigler Stouffer on Wednesday.
The board recommended Stouffer’s sentence be commuted to life in
prison without the possibility of parole.
The Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General issued a statement
regarding the Pardon and Parole Board’s clemency recommendation
for Bigler Stouffer, voicing their disappointment of the Board’s
decision. The office voices they believe the Board’s decision
was improperly based on whether or not an inmate will suffer
pain during execution, saying this concern is not for the Board,
rather it should be a concern of the courts.
“The courts, in declining to grant a stay of execution for other
death row inmates, have spoken. The execution of Mr. Stouffer
should proceed,” the AG’s office said. “The decision, however,
is now in the hands of the Governor. I will continue to make the
safety of the citizens of Oklahoma a top priority of this office
and will continue to advocate for the victims of this horrific
crime as well as all victims of all violent crimes.”
Stouffer was convicted in the 1985 murder of Putnam City school
teacher Linda Reaves and sentenced to death the same year.
Stouffer is scheduled to be executed on December 9 at the
Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has the final say in Stouffer’s fate.
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Re: ~ Bigler Stouffer, 09Dec21, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 23, 2021, 10:08 pm
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Oklahoma death row inmate Bigler Jobe 'Bud' Stouffer II denied
execution stay--
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
After more than three decades on Oklahoma's death row, convicted
murderer Bigler Jobe "Bud" Stouffer II is running out of time.
His execution is set for Dec. 9, and he was denied a stay
Tuesday in Oklahoma City federal court.
Now he is asking the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Denver to intervene.
Stouffer, 79, is on death row for fatally shooting Putnam City
elementary school teacher Linda Reaves on Jan. 24, 1985.
Stouffer asked U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot for a stay
after filing his own legal challenge to the state's lethal
injection procedure.
He said he believed the state would not seek to execute him
until after a trial next year over a legal challenge brought by
other death row inmates.
He was not allowed to participate in that legal challenge when
it was filed in 2014. He sought to intervene on his own in that
case months later but was denied.
Like the other inmates, he complains the state's use of the
sedative midazolam will expose him to excruciating pain in
violation of the constitutional prohibition against cruel and
unusual punishment.
He pointed in his legal filings to media accounts that at the
last execution in Oklahoma inmate John Marion Grant convulsed
and vomited as midazolam was administered.
In denying the stay Tuesday, the judge ruled Stouffer had not
shown a substantial likelihood of succeeding in his challenge.
The judge said the last execution Oct. 28 does not call into
question the efficacy of midazolam as the first drug in the
lethal injection process.
The judge concluded — based on other eyewitness accounts — that
Grant did not have convulsions or seizures and was already
unconscious when he threw up.
The judge specifically noted the testimony Monday of Dr. Ervin
Yen, a longtime Oklahoma City anesthesiologist.
Yen is a former state senator now running for governor. He
watched the execution in person and appeared Monday as a witness
for the state.
Yen described the execution as fast and smooth and said Grant
likely died from the midazolam alone before the other drugs were
administered.
He said Grant appeared to become unconscious 30 to 45 seconds
after midazolam was administered. Yen said the inmate then
stopped breathing and made a "rocking boat motion" as his body
attempted to compensate.
"I've seen seizures before," Yen said. "That's not what it
looked like."
Grant then appeared to cough as many as 20 times and
regurgitated food from his stomach, according to the testimony.
Stouffer's attorneys immediately appealed the denial of the
stay. Attorney Greg Laird called the judge's ruling
disappointing and said Stouffer should be treated like everybody
else and have the opportunity to get his day in court.
Stouffer also still has a longshot bid at getting clemency from
Gov. Kevin Stitt.
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 last week to
recommend clemency after voicing concerns about how the last
execution was carried out.
Stitt is being asked to commute the death sentence to life in
prison without the possibility of parole.
His execution was scheduled along with Grant, Jones and other
inmates who were kicked out of the 2014 legal challenge.
Friot kicked those inmates out because they refused to designate
an alternative method of execution if their challenge succeeded.
The other inmates in the lawsuit picked alternatives.
The U.S. Supreme Court has made picking an alternative a
requirement for challenging execution procedures. Stouffer in
his own legal challenge picked the firing squad as his first
alternative.
Stouffer was convicted at his first trial and a retrial of
murdering Reaves and shooting with intent to kill a homebuilder,
Doug Ivens.
Reaves was dating Ivens, who was in the middle of a divorce.
Stouffer was dating Ivens' estranged wife.
Prosecutors alleged the motive for the shooting was a $2 million
life insurance policy and that he staged the crime scene to make
it look like a murder-suicide.
His plan fell through because Ivens survived.
Ivens crawled to the phone after Stouffer shot him one final
time, in the face, according to evidence in the case. Stouffer
had planted the gun in Reaves' hand before leaving.
He later told his girlfriend in a phone call that he was afraid
she would go back to her husband and that he just went berserk,
according to testimony.
"I left them both for dead," he said, according to the
testimony.
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Re: ~ Bigler Stouffer, 09Dec21, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: December 5, 2021, 6:51 pm
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Gov. Stitt denies clemency to death row inmate Bigler Stouffer--
Friday, December 3, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt denied clemency to
death row inmate Bigler Stouffer on Friday.
The state's Pardon and Parole Board recommended clemency for
Stouffer last month amid concerns over the lethal injection
process.
Stouffer is sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of Putnam
City teacher Linda Reaves and the shooting of Doug Ivens.
"After reviewing materials presented by all sides of the case,
Governor Kevin Stitt has denied the Pardon and Parole Board’s
clemency recommendation for Bigler Jobe Stouffer II," Stitt's
office said in a statement Friday afternoon.
Stouffer is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 9 at 10 a.m.
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Re: ~ Bigler Stouffer, 09Dec21, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: December 7, 2021, 8:08 pm
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Oklahoma inmate Bigler Stouffer asks Supreme Court to delay
execution--
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma death row inmate Bigler Stouffer filed a
request to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stay his
execution.
Stouffer is sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of Putnam
City teacher Linda Reaves and the shooting of Doug Ivens.
He's scheduled for execution Thursday at 10 a.m.
The state's Pardon and Parole Board recommended clemency for
Stouffer last month amid concerns over the lethal injection
process, but Gov. Kevin Stitt denied the recommendation.
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Re: ~ Bigler Stouffer, 09Dec21, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: December 10, 2021, 10:19 pm
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At 79, killer Bigler Jobe 'Bud' Stouffer II is oldest to be
executed in Oklahoma--
Friday, December 10, 2021
McALESTER — Oklahoma executed inmate Bigler Jobe “Bud” Stouffer
II on Thursday without the issues that caused the last three
lethal injections to be described as botched.
The convicted murderer was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. at the
Oklahoma State Penitentiary. It was the state’s second execution
in six weeks after the practice was halted for more than six
years.
“No vomiting, no erratic movements or anything like that. Just,
you could see his chest moving as he appeared to breathe. That’s
about it,” said one media witness, Sean Murphy of the Associated
Press.
The execution process began at 10:01 a m., Corrections
Department Director Scott Crow told reporters. Stouffer was
declared unconscious at 10:06 a.m.
In a policy change, Stouffer was allowed to have his personal
spiritual adviser, Baptist minister Howard Potts, in the
execution chamber with him.
At 79, Stouffer is the oldest inmate in Oklahoma history to be
executed.
He is the second-oldest inmate to be executed in the nation
since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in
1976.
He was put to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting
of Putnam City elementary school teacher Linda Reaves in 1985.
He maintained to the end that he was wrongfully convicted.
Media witness Dylan Goforth said Stouffer talked about being at
peace and ready to go in an interview Wednesday.
“He felt like if he couldn’t prove his innocence while alive,
then his attorneys would prove it after he was gone,” said
Goforth, executive editor of The Frontier.
Three more executions are set for next year.
As many as 26 more could be scheduled next year if death-row
inmates lose a legal challenge to the lethal-injection process
at a trial set to begin Feb. 28 in Oklahoma City federal court.
Stouffer filed his own legal challenge after his execution was
set. He sought to have his execution delayed until after the
trial but was turned down in court three times.
He spent more than three decades on death row because he was
tried twice.
He was first convicted in 1985. He was granted a retrial in 2000
when a federal appeals court agreed that his defense attorneys
had been inept. He was convicted again in 2003 but did not
exhaust his appeals of that conviction until 2017.
Prosecutors alleged that he intended to kill both Reaves and her
boyfriend, Doug Ivens, and staged the crime scene to look like a
murder-suicide.
He planted the gun in Reaves’ hand after shooting them both,
prosecutors alleged.
Ivens was in the middle of a divorce, and Stouffer was dating
his estranged wife.
Ivens survived the attack at his Oklahoma City home and
identified Stouffer as the shooter. Prosecutors alleged that the
motive was a $2 million life insurance policy.
Stouffer also later told his girlfriend that he was afraid she
would go back to her husband and that he just went berserk,
according to testimony.
Stouffer claimed that Reaves already was dead when he arrived at
the house. He suggested she was murdered because she was going
to be a witness in an embezzlement case.
He said at his clemency hearing that Ivens lured him to the
“crime scene” and that he defended himself because Ivens had a
gun. He said Ivens was shot during their struggle.
Jurors at the second trial heard testimony that Stouffer hired
hit men to kill Ivens and two others from death row. He denied
being involved, saying he was being set up again to keep him in
prison.
After the execution, the family of the murder victim thanked the
governor and Attorney General John O’Connor for their
willingness to carry justice through.
“Although long in coming, justice has prevailed,” a cousin,
Rodney C. Thomson, told reporters at the penitentiary.
The cousin recalled how Ivens placed a Christmas tree on Reaves’
grave every year before his death.
His spiritual adviser told the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board
in November that Stouffer turned his incarceration into a
spiritual ministry and regularly shared his faith with other
death-row inmates.
Oklahoma’s last execution, on Oct. 28, led to renewed criticism
of the lethal-injection process after media witnesses reported
that inmate John Marion Grant convulsed and vomited while
strapped to the gurney.
The execution before that — in 2015 — has been described as
botched because officials later determined that the wrong drug
was administered to stop the heart. Also, witnesses said inmate
Charles Frederick Warner complained, “My body is on fire.”
The 2014 execution of inmate Clayton Lockett went awry when an
intravenous line failed.
Robert Patton, the Corrections Department director at the time,
called a halt to the procedure after Lockett writhed on the
gurney, moaned and clenched his teeth. Lockett died anyway, 43
minutes after the lethal injection had begun.
Only about two dozen death-penalty foes showed up for a vigil
Thursday morning outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
A change in execution times — from 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. — resulted
in some not being able to make the trip.
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