Oklahoma executes inmate for 1993 shooting deaths

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of a couple during a home invasion.

In the final moments before he was injected with lethal drugs, George Ochoa maintained he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Francisco Morales, 38, and Maria Yanez, 35, on Oklahoma City’s south side.