After trying unsuccessfully for months to obtain lethal injection drugs, Oklahoma officials said Wednesday they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates once the state resumes using the death ...

The execution of a convicted murderer who has escaped death twice is back on. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled 4-0 Wednesday, June 11, that John Fitzgerald Hanson should not have been ...

Oklahoma Democratic Sen. Nikki Nice and the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty are pleading for mercy in the clemency case of Kendrick Simpson, a death row prisoner whose execution is ...

The executions of Oklahoma inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner were stayed today over concerns that their constitutional rights may be violated over the state's insistence on keeping its ...

McALESTER, Okla. -- A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing his 7-year-old former stepdaughter in 1984. Richard Rojem, 66, received a three-drug lethal ...

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit along with The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer against Oklahoma prison officials. The lawsuit seeks to take the literal ...

Editor's note: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to convicted murderer Tremane Wood minutes before his execution was set to begin at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Thursday, Nov. 13. Read ...

McALESTER, OK − Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to convicted murderer Tremane Wood minutes before his execution was set to begin at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Thursday, Nov. 13. The ...

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At first Oklahoma prison officials suspected that a new drug combination caused Clayton Lockett to writhe in pain and clench his teeth during a botched execution. But a new autopsy report reveals that ...