The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

Only Texas has carried out more executions since Oklahoma resumed lethal injections three years ago. Oklahoma started doing ...

Venables deserves credit for his go-for-the-win decisions. But the lack of execution underscores the season-long issues that ...

Kevin Ray Underwood was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It was Oklahoma’s ...

Who has faced criminal charges after our reporting on organized crime in Oklahoma’s marijuana industry? Will the state be ...

Oklahoma County's new DA is taking a committee approach to deciding whether a murder case warrants the death penalty.

Here are the biggest stories you might have missed in the week of December 15- December 21.1. Taylor Swift says star football ...

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 23 people were executed in the United States in 2023. The number of death sentences imposed was 21. There are 2,180 people on death row in the United ...

The report by the Death Penalty Information Center was released on Thursday, the same day that Oklahoma conducted the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year. Kevin Ray Underwood received ...

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office requested the state’s appellate court to schedule the next execution in March, in line ...

No state court has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation ...