更新于：2026年2月12日 / 美国东部时间下午12:29 / CBS/美联社
一名承认在2006年驾车枪击事件中杀害两人的男子于周四在俄克拉荷马州被处决，这是该州今年的首次处决。
监狱官员称，45岁的肯德里克·辛普森（Kendrick Simpson）在 McAlester 的俄克拉荷马州立监狱接受三种药物注射后，于美国中部时间10:19被宣布死亡。他因在俄克拉荷马城一家夜总会发生争执后向一辆汽车开枪，被判杀害19岁的安东尼·琼斯（Anthony Jones）和20岁的格伦·帕尔默（Glen Palmer）有罪。
辛普森2005年卡特里娜飓风后从被毁的新奥尔良逃到俄克拉荷马城，上月在特赦听证会上承认了这两起谋杀罪。他向受害者家属以及琼斯和帕尔默被枪击时车上的第三名男子道歉。
“我为杀害你们的儿子道歉，”辛普森在听证会上说，“我不找任何借口，也不责怪他人，而他们本不该遭遇这样的事。”
尽管他表示歉意，该州由五名成员组成的赦免与假释委员会仍以微弱优势投票拒绝给予辛普森特赦。周三下午，美国最高法院在驳回阻止处决的迟来上诉时未置评。
强烈支持死刑的俄克拉荷马州总检察长根特纳·德拉蒙德（Gentner Drummond）敦促假释委员会驳回辛普森的特赦申请。在去年年底提交给委员会的正式请求中，德拉蒙德表示辛普森未能表现出真正的悔恨或对其罪行负责。他办公室的一份声明还指责该囚犯继续“体现出导致陪审团一致判处其死刑的暴力行为”。
辛普森的律师辩称，他因童年在新奥尔良一个住房项目中遭受的长期创伤而患有创伤后应激障碍。
“肯德里克是一个值得你们怜悯和同情的人，”他的律师在特赦申请中写道，“死刑应该只适用于最严重的罪行和最恶劣的罪犯，而肯德里克和他的案件都不符合这一点。”
俄克拉荷马州美国公民自由联盟的兰迪·鲍曼（Randy Bauman）在该组织网站上发表了一篇详细社论，称辛普森聪明、有风度、风趣且善良，还有其他积极特质。
“认识肯德里克是我的荣幸，”鲍曼在文中写道。
检察官称，2006年1月杀人当晚，辛普森将一把突击步枪放在他和朋友们开去俄克拉荷马城西北一家俱乐部的车辆后备箱中。在俱乐部与帕尔默发生争执后，检察官称辛普森和他的朋友们从附近的加油站跟踪帕尔默和琼斯，辛普森从车窗伸出枪向他们的车开了约20枪。两名受害者均身中数枪。
一些受害者家属向委员会表示支持处决他。
“我是否相信这个人应该活着并能在牢房外呼吸、度过余生？”帕尔默的妹妹克里斯托·艾莉森（Crystal Allison）在给委员会的信中写道，“他为自己做了选择，所以我今天站在这里为我的家人做选择。是的，我们希望看到他因所做的事被处决——他处决了我的兄弟。”
俄克拉荷马州总检察长根特纳·德拉蒙德称赞委员会拒绝给予辛普森特赦，称他是“一个无情且暴力的杀手，毫无悔意地猎杀受害者”。
该州使用镇静剂咪达唑仑，随后是维库溴铵以阻止呼吸，最后是氯化钾停止心脏跳动。
辛普森预定的处决是美国今年的第二次处决。佛罗里达州周二以三种药物注射方式处决了罗纳德·帕尔默·希思（Ronald Palmer Heath），创下该州2025年执行19次处决的纪录，他因1989年在盖恩斯维尔一家酒吧与兄弟相遇后杀害一名旅行推销员而被定罪。
2025年美国共处决47人，佛罗里达州在共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯（Ron DeSantis）签署大量死刑令后领先。阿拉巴马州、南卡罗来纳州和得克萨斯州当年均以5次处决并列第二。
佛罗里达州计划于周二执行下一次处决，即对抢劫期间杀害杂货店老板的梅尔文·特罗特（Melvin Trotter）实施致命注射。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/why-states-are-turning-to-execution-methods-like-firing-squads-and-nitrogen-gas/
Oklahoma executes inmate who admitted to killing 2 young men: “I apologize for murdering your sons”
Updated on: February 12, 2026 / 12:29 PM EST / CBS/AP
A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma’s first execution of the year.
Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CT following a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said. He was convicted of killing Anthony Jones, 19, and Glen Palmer, 20, by firing into their car following an altercation at an Oklahoma City nightclub.
Simpson, who had fled to Oklahoma City from the devastated city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, admitted to the killings during a clemency hearing last month. He apologized to the victims’ families and to a third man who was in the vehicle when Jones and Palmer were shot.
“I apologize for murdering your sons,” Simpson said at the hearing. “I don’t make any excuses. I don’t blame others, and they didn’t deserve what happened to them.”
Despite his apology, the state’s five-member Pardon and Parole Board narrowly voted to deny Simpson clemency. And on Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court had no comment as it rejected a late appeal to block the execution.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a strong supporter of the death penalty, had urged the parole board to deny Simpson’s clemency petition. In a formal request submitted to the board late last year, Drummond said that Simpson failed to demonstrate genuine remorse or take accountability for his crimes. A statement from his office also accused the inmate of continuing “to embody the violent behavior that led a jury to unanimously impose the death penalty.”
Simpson’s attorneys had argued that he suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder stemming from chronic trauma in his childhood years growing up in a New Orleans housing project.
“Kendrick is a man worthy of your mercy and compassion,” his attorneys wrote in his clemency application. “The death penalty is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst offenses and offenders. Kendrick and his case represent neither.”
Randy Bauman, of the American Civil Liberties Union in Oklahoma, wrote a detailed editorial for the organization’s website in which he described Simpson as intelligent, personable, funny and kind, among other positive attributes.
“It’s been a privilege to get to know Kendrick,” Bauman wrote in the piece.
On the night of the killing in January 2006, prosecutors say, Simpson had placed an assault rifle in the trunk of a vehicle that he and his friends drove to a club in northwest Oklahoma City. After an altercation at the club between Simpson and Palmer, prosecutors say Simpson and his friends followed Palmer and Jones from a nearby gas station and that Simpson pointed the gun out the window and fired about 20 rounds into their car. Both victims were shot multiple times.
Some of the victims’ family members told the board they supported his execution.
“Do I believe this man should live and be able to breathe and take out the rest of his life behind a cell?” Palmer’s sister, Crystal Allison, wrote in a letter to the panel. “He made the choice for him so I stand here today to make the choice for my family. Yes, we would like to see him executed for what he did — he executed my brother.”
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond commended the board for denying Simpson clemency, calling him a “ruthless and violent killer who hunted his victims without remorse.”
The state uses the sedative midazolam, followed by vecuronium bromide to halt the breathing and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
Simpson’s scheduled execution was to be the second of the year in the United States. Florida, which conducted a state record of 19 executions in 2025, put Ronald Palmer Heath to death with a three-drug injection on Tuesday for his conviction in the 1989 killing of a traveling salesman he and his brother met at a Gainesville bar.
A total of 47 people were executed in the U.S. in 2025, with Florida leading the way with a flurry of death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Alabama, South Carolina and Texas tied for second place with five executions each that year.
Florida is scheduled to carry out the next execution in the U.S. on Tuesday, the planned lethal injection of Melvin Trotter for the killing of a grocery store owner during a robbery.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/why-states-are-turning-to-execution-methods-like-firing-squads-and-nitrogen-gas/
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