OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 17, 2025) – A Comanche County judge has granted Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s motion to have death row inmate Ricky Ray Malone reevaluated for competency to face execution, a step necessary so justice can be served in the 2003 murder of Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Nikky Green.
Responding to a December motion filed by Drummond, the court last week ordered the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to reevaluate Malone, who previously was deemed incompetent to execute. An agreement from all parties regarding the reevaluation requirements is due March 5.
“Trooper Green’s family has waited more than 20 excruciating years for justice to be served,” Drummond said. “At long last, this case appears to be moving forward, and we are one step closer to justice being served on the monster who took the life of Trooper Green.”
In its ruling, the court noted that Malone’s competence to be executed has not been reevaluated in more than six years.
Malone fatally shot Trooper Green the morning of Dec. 26, 2003, during a traffic stop in Cotton County.
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