The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre finds there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case in association with the attack by a white mob on a thriving Black district Associated PressJan. 10, 2025 ...
The state records, first reported Thursday byThe Oklahoman,reveal that the Oklahoma Department of Corrections used the lethal drug potassium acetate to execute Warner -- not potassium chloride, which is required under state protocols. In this publicly distributed handout photo, a bottle Potassium Chl...
In March, a corrections officer was injured and an inmate was killed by officers following a hostage situation on the building's 10th floor, where the difficult-to-manage inmates are sent.Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.Rela...
Judge OKs Prison Abuse Settlement, Rejecting Trump Administration's Push to Rewrite Protections A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring and increased transparency in the wake of rampant staff-on-inmate sexua...
30, 2023. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections) McALESTER, Okla. - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two men in Oklahoma City in 2001. Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State ...
Underwood, a former grocery store worker, turned 45 on the day he was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m., state Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West told the Associated Press. Underwood's death marked Oklahoma's fourth...
Aug. 25, 2022, for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. He received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP,...
The best states in the nation shine especially in the areas of crime and corrections, infrastructure and natural environment. Elliott Davis Jr.May 7, 2024 Why Utah Is the Best State Consistency was key in Utah’s return to the top of the Best States rankings for 2024. ...