Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting.

Lawmakers and the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty are calling for a man on death row to be granted clemency. Kendrick Simpson was convicted in 2006 for the double murder in the drive-by shooting of Glen Palmer and Antony Jones. Prosecutors ...

Julius Jones and three other Oklahoma death row inmates have told a federal appeals court that an execution last week was a debacle that proves corrections officials have not learned a thing in six years. "Oklahoma picked up exactly where it left off: it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Hurricane Katrina evacuee who killed two men in a hail of gunfire in Oklahoma City 20 years ago became the second person executed in the U.S. this week. Oklahoma executed Kendrick ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Richard Glossip has spent 27 years behind bars, most of it on Oklahoma’s ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Some Oklahoma lawmakers and a group against the state’s death penalty met Tuesday to ask for clemency for Kendrick Simpson. He’s the next death row inmate scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma. Simpson is scheduled to be ...

Every year, thousands of prisoners in the U.S. are placed in solitary confinement, where they endure isolation, abuse, and mental suffering. This practice might soon become rarer for some inmates in Oklahoma, thanks to the efforts of activists in the state.

A former Oklahoma death row inmate is returning to court as his decades-long legal case continues under a newly assigned judge. Richard Glossip is scheduled to appear in Oklahoma County court Monday morning, marking the first hearing since the U.S. Supreme ...