Execution Date Set for Hamilton

W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General

Execution Date Set for Hamilton

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals today set Jan. 9 as the execution date for Tulsa County death row inmate Corey Duane Hamilton.

Attorney General Drew Edmondson requested the execution date Nov. 6 after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Hamilton’s final appeal.

Hamilton, 37, was convicted of the Aug. 17, 1992, murders of Theodore Kindley, 19, Senaida Lara, 27, Joseph Gooch, 17 and Steven Williams, 24. The four victims, all restaurant employees, were murdered during a robbery at Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, a restaurant on South Sheridan Road. Each died of a close-range gunshot wound to the back of the head.

There are currently no other Oklahoma inmates scheduled for execution.