Capital Punishment

Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025.

Oklahoma law says anyone who has ever scored 76 or higher on an IQ test is competent to die for their crime. Science says otherwise.

Glossip has been on death row for two decades and has survived nine execution dates. Now the United States Supreme Court has tossed his conviction.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested the transfer last month so that George John Hanson would be eligible for the next available execution date which will likely be in June.

The Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row.

A group calling for a halt to the Feb. 17 execution of 35-year-old Gilbert Postelle rallied at the governor's mansion in Oklahoma City on Tuesday.

As executions march grimly forward in Oklahoma after a more than five year lull, the Department of Corrections has changed several of its procedures without explanation.

Oklahoma executed a man with a well-documented history of mental illness and neglect Thursday.

Stouffer was the first person executed in Oklahoma since John Grant convulsed on the gurney and vomited during his lethal injection in October as the state ended a six-year execution moratorium brought on by concerns over its protocols.

After a hearing last week, Pittsburg County Associate District Judge Tim Mills determined there was “good reason" to believe Wade Lay is not competent to be executed.