Execution Date Set For Tulsa Man Convicted Of Killing Store Clerk

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date for a Tulsa County man convicted of a deadly 1975 convenience store robbery.

Michael Bascum Selsor, 57, will be executed on May 1, 2012.

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Selsor was convicted of shooting and killing Clayton Chandler during the robbery of a Tulsa convenience store on September 15, 1975. Chandler was shot six times, according to a report.

Selsor was also convicted of shooting with intent to kill Ina Morris, who was 20 years old at the time. Morris survived multiple gunshot wounds at the hands of Selsor's accomplice, Richard Eugene Dodson, 71.

Selsor was sentenced to death in 1976, but his sentence was adjusted to life imprisonment after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Oklahoma's death penalty later that year.

Selsor's conviction was overturned in 1996 and retried in 1998, when he was again sentenced to death.

Selsor's accomplice is serving 199 year sentence for his part in the shooting.