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Published: September 26, 2008
Child killer executed; bigamist denies niece's murder
McALESTER — Jessie James Cummings said he wasn't guilty, even as he lay strapped to a gurney awaiting the lethal drug combination that would render him unconscious, stop his breathing and then stop his heart.
Cummings, 52, was put to death for the 1991 murder in Coal County of his 11-year-old niece Melissa Moody . He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m.
Cummings is the second Oklahoma inmate put to death this...
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