Death Penalty

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.

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The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for six death row inmates just hours before an attorney for one planned to ask for a rehearing in his case.

Senate Bill 1738 would limit competency hearings for death row inmates.

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.

A three-sentence announcement from the governor's office said Stitt reached the decision "after reviewing materials presented by all sides of the case." No other statement was included.