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Gregory S. Thompson’s criminal record

Gregory S. Thompson’s criminal record
• September 2010 (Pittsburg County) — Charged with first degree manslaughter and possession of contraband by an inmate. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to five years on the first count, to run consecutive to current sentence, and sentenced to 10 years on the second count, to run concurrent to current sentence.
• January 2003 (Oklahoma County) — Convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life without parole.
• January 1991 (Oklahoma County) — Convicted in a 1990 case of shooting with intent to kill. Sentenced to 15 years incarceration.
• January 1991 (Oklahoma County) — Convicted in a 1990 case of shooting with intent to kill and assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Sentenced to 15 years incarceration.

SOURCE: WWW.DOC.STATE.OK.US and Pittsburg County District Court records.

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March 10, 2013

Murderer set for trial in Pittsburg County

By Rachel Petersen Staff Writer

McALESTER — A convicted murder from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary is set to go to trial in Pittsburg County to face a charge of manslaughter in the stabbing death of another OSP inmate.

Gregory S. Thompson, 40, was originally charged in Pittsburg County District Court in September 2010 with first degree murder after he allegedly stabbed fellow inmate Daniel L. Clayton, 38, on Sept. 3, 2009.

In 2011, the charge against Thompson was reduced to first degree manslaughter. Thompson is also facing a felony charge of possession of contraband (a knife) by an inmate.

According to court records, officers at OSP were conducting an inmate count at 10:05 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2009, when they “saw inmate Daniel Clayton lying on the floor of the cell bloody and unresponsive ... (and) saw inmate Gregory Thompson standing over Daniel Clayton wiping his hands.”

Thompson allegedly then handed officers a homemade knife while saying, “it isn’t what it looks like I had to defend myself,” according to court records. Thompson was removed from the cell by correctional officers and taken to the showers while Clayton was placed on a stretcher and rushed over to the medical unit, court records state.

A nurse in OSP’s medical unit checked Clayton’s vital signs and could not find a pulse. Then, a doctor at OSP pronounced Clayton’s death at 11 p.m. At the time of his death, Clayton was serving a 20-year sentence for a Comanche County first degree robbery conviction. Clayton had also served time for multiple prior convictions of burglary, concealing stolen property and possession of contraband in a penal institution.

Thompson is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a 2003 Oklahoma County first degree murder conviction. He is set to go to trial March 12. If convicted, he is facing up to an additional life sentence on each count.



Contact Rachel Petersen at rpetersen@mcalesternews.com.

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