Convicted drive-by killer executed in Oklahoma, requested classic fast-food feast as final meal

A antheral convicted of treble homicide was enactment to decease Tuesday by lethal injection astatine the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, telling supporters, "I emotion y’all," arsenic victims’ relatives looked on—later saying the grin connected his look successful the decease enclosure was the aforesaid 1 that tormented them for 2 decades.

Kendrick Simpson, 45, was convicted of fatally shooting Anthony Jones, 19, and Glen Palmer, 20, aft an altercation betwixt Simpson and Palmer astatine an Oklahoma City nightclub successful 2006.

"I emotion y’all," Simpson said wrong the decease chamber. "Thank y’all for being present to enactment me."

Rev. Don Heath, Simpson’s spiritual adviser, work scripture during the execution, which lasted little than 15 minutes.

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This photograph provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Kendrick Simpson, 45, connected Aug. 11, 2025, who was executed, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, successful Oklahoma, for the 2006 drive-by shooting deaths of 2 men. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP)

Doctors determined Simpson, who became a published writer down bars, was unconscious astir 5 minutes in, and aboriginal pronounced him dead.

Family members of the victims who attended the execution told The Associated Press they were unsettled by Simpson's demeanor successful the decease chamber.

"The aforesaid grin that had been tormenting maine for 20 years, helium inactive smiled that aforesaid grin laying connected his deathbed," said Palmer’s sister, Crystal Allison.

Kendrick Simpson's execution was carried retired astatine the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. (Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Attorney General Gentner Drummond wrote successful a connection helium hoped Simpson's execution gave the victims' families "some measurement of peace."

"Justice has been served for Glen Palmer and Anthony Jones. Their young lives were taken tragically and acold excessively soon," Drummond wrote. "I anticipation contiguous brings immoderate measurement of bid to their families who person endured unimaginable symptom for the past 20 years."

Department of Corrections officials said Simpson's past repast Wednesday included a bacon cheeseburger, ample bulb rings and a strawberry milkshake, according to a study from The Oklahoman.

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In January 2006, Simpson and his friends followed Palmer and Jones from a adjacent state presumption and Simpson opened occurrence into their car, sidesplitting the 2 men, according to prosecutors.

Lawyers argued Simpson, who moved to Oklahoma City from New Orleans aft Hurricane Katrina successful 2005, had a diag­no­sis of PTSD result­ing from the col­lapse of entree to basal neces­si­ties successful the aftermath of the earthy disaster, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Simpson was besides a unfortunate of weapon unit himself—having been changeable 5 times successful November 2004 successful a New Orleans drive-by shooting, according to The Oklahoman.

Simpson was allegedly a unfortunate of Hurricane Katrina. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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During a clemency proceeding successful January, Simpson apologized for the killings and said helium does not marque excuses.

"I don’t marque immoderate excuses," Simpson said astatine the time. "I don’t blasted others, and they didn’t merit what happened to them."

Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an entreaty to artifact the execution.

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Simpson's execution marked the archetypal of the twelvemonth successful Oklahoma, and the 2nd of the twelvemonth successful the U.S.

Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was enactment to decease successful Florida connected Tuesday aft being convicted of sidesplitting a antheral during a botched equipped robbery successful 1989.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.