Death Penalty

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.

It heads to the full House where its fate is uncertain.

The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office says federal authorities are refusing to transfer a prisoner who is set to be executed in Oklahoma this December.

This week the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board will be holding a clemency hearing for Richard Fairchild, a man sentenced to death for beating his girlfriend's son to Death in Del City in 1993.

Governor Kevin Stitt has denied clemency for death row inmate James Coddington. He will be executed Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

Governor Kevin Stitt has delayed the execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip by 60 days.