Oklahoma to execute death row prisoners nearly every month

State set execution dates on Friday for six inmates and plans for executions to take place about once a month through 2024

Oklahoma is planning to execute a prisoner on death row nearly every month starting in August through 2024 in a move that is likely to cause outrage among opponents of the death penalty.

The Oklahoma court of criminal appeals set the execution dates on Friday for six inmates, who have all exhausted their appeals, and plans for executions to take place about once a month. The inmates' capital punishments were on hold because of a lawsuit over botched lethal injections, which led to a more than five-year execution moratorium.