Anti-death penalty advocates restore crosses placed to protest planned executions

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Anti-death penalty activists helped restore the 25 crosses they placed to protest the 25 back-to-back executions Oklahoma had planned.

The efforts come as the execution of Richard Glossip draws closer.

Volunteers repaired and repainted the crosses placed last summer shortly after the executions were announced.

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"Today me, and others, are gathered here to draw some awareness to this. This is not okay in Oklahoma, we should not be putting people to death," said Bo Ireland, the pastor of Clark United Methodist Church. "No matter what their crime that they are convicted of, or if they did not have due process and are presumed innocent, which is the case for Richard Glossip."

On Wednesday, they are painting the crosses white.

Next week they say they will paint the crosses for the ones already executed red.

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Last year they painted the cross red when the person was executed.

They planned to paint the ones granted clemency green.

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