- Steven Oken
Infobox Criminal
subject_name = Steven Howard Oken
date_of_birth =January 22 ,1962
date_of_death = death date and age|2004|6|17|1962|1|22
place_of_death =Baltimore, Maryland
charge = Two counts ofhomicide and one count of first-degree murder
penalty = Death bylethal injection
status = ExecutedSteven Howard Oken (
January 22 ,1962 –June 17 ,2004 ) was an Americanmurder er who was executed inMaryland bylethal injection in 2004.The crimes
On
November 1 ,1987 , Steven Oken, then 25, murdered Dawn Marie Garvin. She was found by her father on the bed in her apartment, naked, with a bottle protruding from hervagina , and blood streaming from her forehead. Despite efforts of her father and paramedics to administer CPR, she was dead. Anautopsy 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 Maryland home. He then fled to
Maine , where he murdered Lori Ward, the desk clerk at the hotel in which he was staying. He was arrested in Maine onNovember 17 ,1987 and was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life without parole in Maine for first-degree murder. 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 pled guilty to killing Patricia Hirt, and received an additional life sentence. OnJune 17 ,2004 , Steven Oken was executed bylethal injection at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore at age 42. Hislast meal was a chicken patty, with potatoes and gravy, green beans, marble cake, milk, and fruit punch – the regular prison meal that day.ee also
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Capital punishment in Maryland
*Capital punishment in the United States References
* [http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/oken915.htm Steven Howard Oken] . "The Clark Country Prosecuting Attorney". Retrieved on
2007-11-11 .
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