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Oklahoma’s Governor is the person who must choose whether a man at the center of a national controversy around the death penalty will live or die on Thursday afternoon.

Less than 48 hours out from his scheduled execution, Julius Jones’ supporters still don’t know whether he’ll get clemency.

The last executions in Oklahoma were embarrassing failures.Before he died, Clayton Lockett writhed and moaned on his gurney. Charles Warner said his body…

The director of Oklahoma's prison system is the second high-ranking official to step down amid an investigation into a series of botched executions in the…

Friends and family of Richard Glossip gather around a cell phone outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on September 30, straining to listen…

Updated May 1 at 12:15 p.m.: Listen to the oral arguments from Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on Oklahoma's death penalty challenge. Original post…

Legislation that authorizes the use of nitrogen gas to execute Oklahoma death row inmates has been approved by a state Senate committee.The Senate…

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court stalls the execution, Oklahoma will resume executions Thursday. After botching its last one, Oklahoma officials will use the…

A federal appeals court has denied a request by four Oklahoma death row inmates for a stay of execution, paving the way for the state's first lethal…

Attorneys have asked a federal appeals court to delay the executions of four Oklahoma inmates while the court considers their joint appeal.The attorneys…