Oklahoma Executes Man for 1993 Killing of 3-Year-Old Boy

Richard Fairchild. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP

McALESTER, Okla.—Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the torture slaying of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993.

Richard Stephen Fairchild, who turned 63 on Thursday, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:24 a.m.