Venables deserves credit for his go-for-the-win decisions. But the lack of execution underscores the season-long issues that ...
No state court has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation ...
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office requested the state’s appellate court to schedule the next execution in March, in line ...
Resuming executions in Arizona is becoming one step closer in the state, but critics are swinging back, saying the state is not prepared to follow through, and are demanding accountability.
The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based ...
Who has faced criminal charges after our reporting on organized crime in Oklahoma’s marijuana industry? Will the state be ...
Eleven death penalty cases were pending in Oklahoma County District Court when the new district attorney took office. Where ...
Only Texas has carried out more executions since Oklahoma resumed lethal injections three years ago. Oklahoma started doing ...
Oklahoma County's new DA is taking a committee approach to deciding whether a murder case warrants the death penalty.
The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on ...
US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, ahead of the return to power of Donald Trump, who ...
A chorus of supporters and critics have emerged following the commutation of nearly every federal death row inmate by ...