lethal injection

Oklahoma secrecy laws allow the state to obscure where it gets lethal injection drugs. Given the state's track record, the critics say, that shouldn't be the case.

For the second time in 2022 and just the fourth time in seven years, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate.

Death row inmate Donald A. Grant will be the next of Oklahoma’s death row inmates to be executed on Thursday morning, followed in three weeks by Gilbert Postelle.

Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommends clemency for Bigler Stouffer

Executions by lethal injection are usually carried out in six to 12 minutes. On April 29, 2014, it took 43 minutes for Clayton Lockett to die. Lockett,…

There’s a possibility state supplies of sedatives, paralytics and other drugs could be useful in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.A group of…

The condemned man enters the room where he will draw his last breath.He will be restrained in some way, perhaps strapped to the T-shaped platform where…

A bipartisan group of Oklahomans is urging the state to keep its temporary ban on the death penalty. The independent group, the Oklahoma Death Penalty…

Oklahoma’s top officials say they’re taking time to thoroughly read a scathing 106-page report released Thursday criticizing Oklahoma’s execution…

A third high-ranking official associated with Oklahoma’s death penalty protocols stepped down Thursday. Governor Mary Fallin's legal counsel Steve Mullins…