Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is seeking a first-degree murder charge against Richard Glossip despite previously ...

Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...

William Lewis Reece confessed to one killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. All the victims were female.

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Then-Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin announced a moratorium on executions in the state at that point citing the need for a review of the state's death penalty procedures. September 2021 - First ...

Anti–death penalty activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in a final attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on Sept. 29, 2015, in Washington.

Oklahoma last week began what many are viewing as a state-sanctioned onslaught on its incarcerated population — executing its first death row inmate out of an unprecedented 25 inmates scheduled ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma has set execution dates nine times for death row inmate Richard Glossip. The state has fed him three “last meals.” Glossip has even been married twice while awaiting ...

Oklahoma’s death penalty system attracted international attention after the botched executions of Clayton Lockett in 2014 and Charles Warner in 2015 and the nearly botched execution of Richard ...

Oklahoma executions resumed in 2021 when two inmates were put to death, including John Grant, who convulsed multiple times and vomited before dying in October of last year. Two other inmates have ...

Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith was executed at 10 a.m. local time Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after his conviction for killing Janet Moore and Sharath Pulluru.

State capital cases, or death penalty proceedings, cost state taxpayers 3.2 times more than noncapital cases on average, according to the 2017 study of the Oklahoma death penalty.