The death penalty is reserved for the most serious murder cases in Oklahoma, but prosecutors say the decision to pursue it involves a detailed legal and internal review process. Erik Grayless, a ...

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge ...

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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 ...

In Oklahoma, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, it is exceedingly rare for a person on death row to receive clemency. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, just six ...

The machinery of state-sanctioned killing in the United States continued this week with executions in Florida and Oklahoma, the second and third executions of 2026. The deaths of these men underscore ...