Oklahoma’s top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be executed for killing a 77-year-old woman in 1999 Associated PressJan. 24, 2025 Federal Probe of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Says 'No Avenue' for Criminal Case in Conne...
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...
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...
state Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West told the Associated Press. Underwood's death marked Oklahoma's fourth execution in 2024. The state tied Missouri with the third-highest number of death sentences
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 ...
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. ...
FILE - This Feb. 5, 2021, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James Coddington. Oklahoma executed Coddington on Thursday, 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 ...