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[Photograph 2012.201.B1008.0298]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the states' narrowly misses a chance for freedom when the State P a r d o n and parole Board votes 3-2 to deny clemency for convicted slayer Gerald Pate."
Date: December 11, 1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0449]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The maximum security unit at the State penitentiary, known as "Tge Rock," looks like this these days as inmates go about the task of cleaning up after the unit was burned out by convicts last October. A federal grand jury in Muskogee is currently investigating gassings and other incidents involved in the violence which was flared from time to time in these punishment cells."
Date: January 16, 1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The power generator which provides the charge to the elctric chair at Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester has not been turned on for eight years."
Date: May 29, 1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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