Two Oklahoma police officers were convicted of second-degree murder on Friday in the Taser death of a 28-year-old man in July 2019, authorities report. Prosecutors said the repeated use of the Tasers was “dangerous and unnecessary” during the pair’s encounter with Jared Lakey on July 4, 2019. The former officers Joshua Taylor, 25, and Brandon Dingman, 34, with the Wilson Police Department, each received a sentence of 10 years in prison according to reports by the Washington Post. In an 2019 statement, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) said that Dingman deployed his Taser 23 times for a total of 114 seconds of tasing over nine minutes while Taylor deployed his Taser 30 times for 122 seconds in total. The combined use of Tasers more than 50 times “greatly exceeded what would have been necessary or warranted by the attendant circumstances” according to court documents obtained by the New York …