News Release
08/12/2010
Execution Date Set for Sequoyah County Killer
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals today set October 14 as the execution date for Sequoyah County death row inmate Donald Ray Wackerly, II.
Wackerly was convicted and sentenced to death for the Sept. 7, 1996, murder of Pam Sayakhoummane, 51, during a robbery.
The attorney general’s office requested the execution date June 7 after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Wackerly’s final appeal.
There is currently one other inmate set for execution in Oklahoma. Cleveland County death row inmate Jeffrey Matthews is scheduled to be executed next Tuesday for the 1994 murder of Otis Earl Short, 77, during a robbery of Short’s home in Rosedale.
There are no other execution date requests pending.