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

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 ...

Oklahoma executed a man Thrusday for fatally shooting a woman 20 years ago during a home invasion and robbery. Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma ...

Both Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and his predecessor, John O’Connor, had sought Hanson’s transfer during President Joe Biden’s administration, but the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied it, ...

McALESTER — Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death ...

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.

Oklahoma scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state. Now it's back on amid a busy year for executions.

Mississippi prisoner Richard Gerald Jordan is hoping for relief from federal courts or clemency from Gov. Tate Reeves to stop ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

This case demonstrates that no matter how long it takes, Oklahoma will hold murderers accountable for their crimes.” Hanson, who was convicted in the 1999 kidnapping and killing of Mary Bowles, was ...