Oklahoma is set to execute a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006. Forty-five-year-old Kendrick Simpson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday in Oklahoma's first execution this year. Simpson admitted at a clemency hearing last month that he shot and killed 19-year-old Anthony Jones and 20-year-old Glen Palmer and apologized to their families. Oklahoma's five-member board narrowly voted to deny Simpson clemency. Simpson's attorneys had argued he suffered from chronic trauma growing up in a New Orleans housing project. He moved to Oklahoma City after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.
