Criminal Justice

Amid a mass rescheduling of execution dates and an investigation into one death row inmate’s claim of innocence, some Oklahoma conservatives are shifting away from or completely against the death penalty.

Shannon Hanchett and Kathryn Milano were waiting for mental health evaluations in the Cleveland County jail when they died. Now, the sheriff and the Oklahoma company responsible for them are asking for more taxpayer money to expand jail health care.

After successfully pushing back the execution dates of several death row inmates earlier this week, Attorney General Gentner Drummond is also ordering a new review of one inmate’s case.

Oklahoma currently has one execution scheduled each month from February to August, but a request from the Attorney General might lengthen the time between each execution.

Oklahoma death row inmate Scott Eizember is set to be executed Thursday morning.

A former Kay County Detention Center supervisory corrections officer will serve time in federal prison for violating the civil rights of three Black detainees.

Richard Fairchild was on death row for the 1993 murder of his girlfriend's three-year-old son.

Stabbings at the Holdenville prison through July more than tripled since 2021, according to Hughes County emergency medical services call data.

For the third time in 2022, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate. James Allen Coddington was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:16 a.m. this morning. He was 50.

A law firm claims new evidence has been discovered in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend clemency to death row inmate James Coddington.

The owner of a bakery in Fairview was arrested Tuesday for several offenses related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.