Print News for the Heart of our City. Volume 58, Issue 3 March 2020 Read us daily at www.city-sentinel.com Ten Cents Page 3 Page 6 Page 8 Page 9 Super Tuesday nears and national Democrats come to Oklahoma Ryan Kiesel, ACLU of OK Executive Director steps down in June Keep OK Beautiful and Disney partner for Great American Cleanup OCU Dance kicks off 2020 with ‘Broadway Revue’ Be Green With Envy at Paseo’s First Friday Gallery Walk Staff Report Sam Charboneau, watercolor and ink by Caroline Cohenour, As Oklahoma’s first arts dis- collage and paintings by Mad- trict, the Paseo Arts District eleine Schmidt, abstract paint- continues to grow with restau- ings by Kendall Schulz, prints rants, galleries and retail. The mounted on wood by Virginia community is invited to the Sitzes and oil paintings on fab- First Friday Gallery Walk ev- ric by Twyleen Tepe. ery month, rain or shine. Gal- Strange and surreal scenes leries and shops stay open late, from Charboneau and Tepe and the evening marks the will draw you in to examine opening of new exhibitions the details of their elegant and each month. This month’s walk haunting works. Sitzes and Co- is Friday, March 6, 6 - 9 p.m. henour’s bright and winding An exhibition featuring six lines and shapes will exhilarate female Oklahoma artists, “Lu- and inspire you. Compare the minosity,” will open in the ways that Schulz uses basics Paseo Art Space on First Fri- shapes to create quilt like pat- Oklahoma officials announced on Feb. 13, that the state would resume executions with an “updated version” of the lethal day. Visitors to the gallery terns on canvas, and Schmidt injection protocol of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, the same drugs used in the botched execu- during this Women’s History uses them to collage vignettes tion of death row inmate Clayton Lockett. File photo. Month will find the walls filled of often overlooked settings with surreal photography by and situations. “This has been a culmination Oklahoma to end moratorium after of ongoing discussions acquiring same lethal injection among these Twyleen Tepe artists that the artists will be held on First have been col- Friday and the exhibit will run drugs used in botched executions laborating for through March 28. By Darla Shelden Mike Hunter, accompanied by are midazolam, vecuronium the first time, The Paseo folks declare: City Sentinel Reporter Gov. Kevin Stitt, Rep. Harold bromide and potassium chlo- says Paige “We’ve got dinner covered!” White (R-Weatherford), Rep. ride. Powell, pro- Mekong Spice food truck After a five-year moratori- Chris Kannaday (R-Oklahoma The AG refused to say what gram manag- will be serving up authen- um, State officials announced City), and Department of Cor- the source of the drugs would er of the Pas- tic Thai and Lao cuisine. Egg last month that Oklahoma rections (DOC) Director Scott be. eo Arts Asso- rolls and pork satay are a cou- would resume executions with Crow. According to Hunter, the up- ciation. We’re ple of menu favorites, and you an “updated version” of the le- Hunter said the state has dated protocol includes several thrilled to be must try one of their specialty thal injection protocol used acquired a “reliable supply of recommendations made by the involved in teas. Create your own bouquet in past botched executions in drugs” to perform executions 2016 multicounty grand jury, such a dynam- with flowers from Growe Flow- Oklahoma. after the 150-day waiting peri- such as a verification of execu- ic show.” er Truck. Stop by this month’s A press conference was held od has passed. The three drugs tion drugs at every step in the An opening mobile vendors at the corner on Feb. 13 by Attorney General that will continue to be used continued on page 2 Seasons by Kendall Schulz reception with continued on page 9 Stephanie Bice named “Young Guns Contender” by NRCC Stephanie Bice, conservative Republican candidate for Congress in Okla- homa’s Fifth Congressional District, has advanced to 2020 National Re- publican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Young Guns Contender, the second tier of the 2020 “Young Guns” program. Bice, the only Oklahoma candidate promoted to Contender, was named an “On the Radar” Candi- date in August during the first round of the NRCC Young Guns program. “I’m grateful that the NRCC has recognized the hard work of the Bice for Congress team,” Bice said. “We’re on the ground in the district every day listening to voters, building a grassroots army and doing everything we can to return the fifth district to Oklahoma Republicans.” In the fourth quarter, Bice raised more than $290,000. Since entering the race in May 2019, she has raised more than $643,000. The campaign had 2,500 indi- vidual contributors in the fourth quarter, and to date, over 4,400 indi- viduals have donated to the campaign. Photo provided. As Super Tuesday nears, national Democrats make the rounds in Oklahoma Prison reform advocate Kim Kardashian West filmed portions of Marc Howard’s Georgetown Prison Scholars Program in By Patrick B. McGuigan ever, Bernie Sanders scored a election day. July at the DC jail as part of her upcoming documentary, “Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project.” Facebook photo. Editor significant victory in Oklaho- As for Joe Biden, all his cam- ma’s primary four years ago, paign efforts and scheduling Democratic presidential and continues to attract signifi- for late February were centered Prisons and Justice Initiative founder hopefuls and their surrogates cant support among local pro- in South Carolina, which is th are active in the Sooner State gressives. holding its Democratic prima- Marc Howard to speak at 29 Annual as the March 3 “Super Tues- Elizabeth Warren and Amy ry on Feb. 29. day” primary nears. Klobuchar are expected to Tom Steyer is on the ballot. OK-CADP fundraiser Mike Bloomberg is at the draw a fair share of support – He is, like Bloomberg, a billion- By Darla Shelden and students to examine and head of the pack in some Okla- and Tulsi Gabbard supporters aire. City Sentinel Reporter combat mass incarceration. homa measures of public opin- were making phone calls to Registered independents are The main inspiration for ion which were taken before identified likely voters begin- eligible to vote in Democratic The 29th Annual Oklahoma Marc’s passionate involvement recent national debates. How- ning two weeks before primary continued on page 3 Coalition to Abolish the Death with criminal justice and pris- Penalty (OK-CADP) Awards ons came from his work to Dinner & Meeting on Saturday, free a childhood friend, Marty April 25, will feature keynote Tankleff, who was wrongful- A note to advertisers and speaker Marc Howard, Profes- ly convicted and spent over 17 sor of Government and Law at years in a New York maximum potential advertisers Georgetown University and security prison before being Here is The City Sentinel print edition production schedule Director of the Prisons and Jus- exonerated in December 2007. for next 4 months. tice Initiative. In his most recent book, Un- April 2020 edition The event will be held at the usually Cruel: Prisons, Pun- Ad space reservation: Tuesday, March 24 Connor Center - Cathedral of ishment, and the Real Ameri- Ad content deadline: Thursday, March 26 Our Lady of Perpetual Help, can Exceptionalism, Marc ar- 3214 N. Lake Ave. (1 block west gues that the American crimi- May 2020 edition Marc Howard, Professor of Govern- of Western at N.W. 32 St.) in nal justice and prison systems Ad space reservation: Tuesday, April 21 ment and Law at Georgetown Uni- Oklahoma City. The evening versity and Director of the Prisons are exceptional – “in a truly Ad content deadline: Thursday, April 23 will include a cocktail recep- and Justice Initiative will be keynote shameful way.” June 2020 edition tion at 5:30 p.m., followed by a speaker at the 29th annual OK-CADP In 2014, while writing Un- Ad space reservation: Tuesday, May 19 buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m., and Awards Dinner & Meeting on Satur- usually Cruel, Howard began Ad content deadline: Thursday, May 21 awards program at 7 p.m. day, April 25 in Oklahoma City. Photo volunteer teaching and manag- provided. Professor, prison educator, ing higher educational courses July 2020 edition and exonerator, Howard is one articles, Marc has received nu- at the Jessup Correctional In- Ad space reservation: Tuesday, June 23 of the country’s leading advo- merous literary awards. stitution (JCI), a maximum-se- Ad content deadline: Thursday, June 25 cates for criminal justice and Through the Prisons and curity prison in Maryland. prison reform. Author of three Justice Initiative Marc brings Since then, under Howard’s books and dozens of academic together scholars, practitioners continued on page 2 Page 2 www.city-sentinel.com March 2020 NEWS See us online, and on Facebook and Twitter Prisons and Oklahoma to end moratorium after Justice Initiative acquiring same lethal injection drugs founder Marc used in botched executions Howard to continued from page 1 process, and more training for th the execution team. speak at 29 AG Hunter and then DOC di- rector Joe Allbaugh announced Annual OK-CADP on March 15, 2018, that Oklaho- ma would be the first state to Last October, Marc Howard visited Julius Jones on Oklahoma’s pursue a new execution proto- death row in McAlester. Facebook photo. fundraiser col of nitrogen hypoxia, or in- continued from page 1 ment” course has become one chard Glossip. ert gas inhalation. However, of the most sought-after cours- The Oklahoma Department they have been unable to find leadership, the Prisons and es at Georgetown.