Ray Rivera
Executive Editor at The Oklahoman
Exec Ed of The Oklahoman & VP of News for Gannett's Middle America region; former New York Times staff reporter. Founder of Searchlight New Mexico.
Articles
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2 months ago |
oklahoman.com | Ray Rivera
Glynn Simmons was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1975. He was spared the electric chair two years later after the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted executions. His sentence was changed from death to life in prison. If not for that fact, Glynn Simmons would not be with us today. He would not have spent 48 years, nearly his entire adult life, trying to prove his innocence.
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Jan 21, 2024 |
news.yahoo.com | Ray Rivera
As a child, one of the places I found connection with my parents was through the comics. They would read the news, lifestyles and sports sections, while my brother, sister and I would scramble for the comic strips, especially if they were in color. They helped build lifelong reading habits and an affection for the newspaper that has never waned.
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Jan 6, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Ray Rivera
The images still haunt. Five teenagers in the small town of Henryetta, murdered by a convicted sex-offender who should never have been free. The mother of three of the them was also killed by the same man, her husband, Jesse McFadden, before he killed himself. McFadden, who was convicted in 2003 of raping a 17-year-old at knifepoint, was accused in 2017 of soliciting child porn from a teen girl while still in prison.
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Nov 19, 2021 |
oklahoman.com | Ray Rivera
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Nov 2, 2021 |
vinepair.com | Ray Rivera
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Actual Innocence: Glynn Simmons was innocent. Read the story of his 48-year fight to prove it. https://t.co/Df6zGCi1jm via @theoklahoman_