Oklahoma Executes Man for 1985 Slaying of School Teacher

This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Bigler Jobe Stouffer II. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP

McALESTER, Okla.—Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the 1985 shooting death of an Oklahoma City-area schoolteacher after courts rejected his claim that the state’s lethal injection method would result in unconstitutional pain and suffering.

Bigler Stouffer II, 79, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.