in McAlester, Corey Duane Hamilton was put to death

in McAlester, Corey Duane Hamilton was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the execution-style slaying of 4 employees at a restaurant 14 years ago.
Hamilton, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. in the maximum security prison's death chamber.
Hamilton received 4 death sentences after he and 3 others were convicted of killing Joseph Gooch, 17; Theodore Kindley, 19; Senaida Lara, 27; and Steven Williams, 24.
4 robbers took $2,200 and then forced the victims into the restaurant's walk-in refrigerator on Aug. 17, 1992. They were each shot once in the back of the head.
3 other men were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the case, but Hamilton received the death penalty in part because one of the co-defendants testified Hamilton was the shooter.
Hamilton becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Oklahoma, the 1st this year in the USA and the 1058th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.