This is the documented grave of a convicted criminal. Information below comes from public records.
James D. French
1920 โ August 10, 1966Convicted 1961
Buried at:
Lexington Cemetery , Lexington, Oklahoma ยท Documented plot per historical records (Lexington area)
Criminal History (Public Record)
Convicted of the 1961 murder of his cellmate (he had previously been serving a life sentence for another murder). Sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on August 10, 1966. His case marked the end of an era for Oklahoma executions until 1990.
Background
James D. French was an American man convicted of murder and one of the last people executed in Oklahoma before the national moratorium on the death penalty.
Contemporary Oklahoma and national news coverage of the 1961-1966 case and execution
Oklahoma Department of Corrections historical records
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