OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection for killing a Tulsa ...

This was Oklahoma's 17th execution since 2021 and the third in the U.S. that week. Hanson's clemency plea was denied, and his requests for execution stays were rejected. McALESTER — A convicted ...

An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection for killing a Tulsa woman in 1999.

Byron James Shepard was in t State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

John Fitzgerald Hanson complained in a lawsuit about his clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.

Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row.

An Oklahoma judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration ...

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration. John Fitzgerald Hanson is set to receive a lethal injection Thursday at the ...

In 1959, the Supreme Court, anticipating what is now unfolding in Oklahoma, said that “at some point the cruelty of harassment by multiple prosecutions by a state would offend due process.” In the ...