A double murderer has been executed via lethal injection, as he claimed he committed his crimes due to "paranoia." Kendrick Antonio Simpson, 45, was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Thursday morning local time and pronounced dead at 10.19am (4.19pm GMT).

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He had been sentenced to death for a 2006 drive-by shooting in Oklahoma City that left two young men dead.

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