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词条 Steven Oken
释义

  1. The crimes

  2. Trial and execution

  3. Personal life

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox criminal
| name = Steven Howard Oken
| birth_date = January 22, 1962
| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|6|17|1962|1|22}}
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland
| charge = Two counts of homicide and one count of first-degree murder
| conviction_penalty = Death by lethal injection (January 18, 1991)
| conviction_status = Executed
}}

Steven Howard Oken (January 22, 1962 – June 17, 2004) was an American murderer who was executed in Maryland by lethal injection in 2004.

The crimes

On November 1, 1987, Steven Oken, then 25, murdered Dawn Marie Garvin (nee Romano). She was found by her father on the bed in her White Marsh apartment, naked, with a condiment bottle protruding from her vagina and blood streaming from her forehead. Despite efforts of her father and paramedics to administer CPR, she was dead. An autopsy later revealed that she had died as the result of two contact gunshot wounds; one of the bullets entered at her left eyebrow and the other at her right ear.

Less than two weeks after Oken murdered Dawn Garvin, he sexually assaulted and murdered his sister-in-law, Patricia Hirt, at his White Marsh townhouse, dumping her body along White Marsh Boulevard. He then fled to Kittery, Maine, where he murdered Lori Ward, the desk clerk at the motel in which he was staying. He was arrested in Maine on November 17, 1987, and was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life without parole in Maine for the first-degree murder of Ward. Oken was then returned to Maryland where he faced separate prosecutions for charges arising out of the other two murders.

Trial and execution

Oken was found guilty and sentenced to die for the killing of Dawn Garvin on January 18, 1991. Following his conviction for Garvin's murder Oken pleaded guilty to killing Patricia Hirt, and received an additional life sentence. On June 17, 2004, Steven Oken was executed by lethal injection at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore at age 42. His last meal was a chicken patty, with potatoes and gravy, green beans, marble cake, milk, and fruit punch – the regular prison meal that day.

Personal life

Oken was adopted by a Jewish family, and attended Randallstown High School.[1][2]

See also

  • Capital punishment in Maryland
  • Capital punishment in the United States

References

1. ^{{cite news|last=Bykowicz|first=Julie|title=Md. puts Oken to death|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.md.oken18jun18,0,5727982.story?page=1&coll=bal-home-headlines|accessdate=17 April 2012|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=18 June 2004|author2=Alec MacGillis}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Bykowicz|first=Julie|title=Trying to aid son before execution|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-06-14/news/0406150376_1_steven-oken-davida-randallstown-high-school|accessdate=17 April 2012|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=14 June 2004}}

External links

  • Steven Howard Oken. The Clark Country Prosecuting Attorney. Retrieved on 11 November 2007.
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