Innocence
,Clemency
,Jun 23, 2021
Following additional revelations that Richard Glossip (pictured) may be innocent of the murder that sent him to Oklahoma’s death row in 1998, a bipartisan group of 34 state legislators are calling upon Gov…
Lethal Injection
,Feb 14, 2022
Autopsy results for an Oklahoma death-row prisoner whose execution state officials claimed “was carried out … without complication” have confirmed eyewitness reports that John Grant likely suffered a torturous de…
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Time on Death Row
,Jul 19, 2022
As Richard Glossip faces an execution date for the fourth time, his case is a perfect example of the problems in the death-penalty system that then-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (pictured) identified in his…
Lethal Injection
,May 07, 2020
Oklahoma will not seek to carry out any executions while litigation continues in federal court on the state’s lethal-injection protocol, a U.S. federal district court judge has announced.At a May 5, 2020 hearing on the Okla…
Lethal Injection
,Oct 29, 2021
Oklahoma’s legacy of botched executions has continued to grow, as media witnesses to the October 28, 2021 execution of John Grant (pictured) reported that Grant suffered repeated convulsions and vomited over a nea…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Upcoming Executions
,Jul 25, 2022
Former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (pictured) and former U.S. Magistrate Judge Andy Lester, who co-chaired the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission in 2017, have called on st…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,New Voices
,Aug 15, 2018
Calling Oklahoma “the notorious home of ‘Hang ’Em High’ executions,” conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin (pictured) has urged the state to adopt sytemic reforms to address its “wretch…
Mental Illness
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Sep 22, 2022
Lawyers for Oklahoma death-row prisoner Benjamin Cole have filed a petition with the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole asking the Board to recommend to Governor Kevin Stitt that Cole’s sentenc…
Innocence
,Clemency
,New Voices
,Sep 30, 2020
A self-described tough-on-crime Oklahoma state representative says has serious doubts as to the reliability of the Sooner State’s death penalty. “As taxpayers and voters,” Republican State Representative Kevin McDu…
Upcoming Executions
,Jun 13, 2022
Oklahoma state prosecutors are pushing to schedule 25 executions over approximately two years, after a federal judge denied death-row prisoners’ challenge to the state’s controversial lethal-injection protocol. On June 10,…
Executions Overview
,Feb 18, 2022
When Oklahoma executed Gilbert Postelle on February 17, 2022, it came with a dubious distinction. The intellectually impaired man who was 18 years old at the time of his offense became the 44th person …
Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Aug 17, 2022
Oklahoma Governor J. Kevin Stitt has issued a 60-day stay of execution to death-row prisoner Richard Glossip. The order, issued August 16, 2022, delays Glossip’s September 22 execution to provide the Oklah…
Lethal Injection
,May 20, 2016
Following seven months of investigation into the causes of Oklahoma’s botched execution of Charles Warner using an unauthorized execution drug and its near‑e…
Lethal Injection
,Feb 10, 2022
Oklahoma is paying $15,000 per execution, plus $1,000 for each day of training, to an unnamed doctor to participate in the process of putting state prisoners to death. Under the agreement, the doctor stood to receive an estimated …
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Apr 14, 2016
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections knew it had used an unauthorized drug in the execution of Charles Warner nearly six months before it almost repeated t…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Sep 28, 2022
An Oklahoma state representative has called for an investigation into the practices of the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s office following additional revelations that county prosecutors deliberately withheld…
Innocence
,Jun 17, 2022
Oklahoma legislators announced that an independent investigation revealed strong evidence of Richard Glossip’s innocence. Glossip, who came within hours of execution in 2015, is the second prisoner the Oklahoma At…
Lethal Injection
,State by State
,Mar 02, 2020
Less than two weeks after Oklahoma officials announced that the state would return to the same controversial three-drug execution protocol implicated in a series of botched executions in 2014 and 2015, the state’s death-row prison…
Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Nov 21, 2022
Oklahoma has pushed back the clemency hearings of two men on death row, John Hanson and Richard Glossip (pictured). Glossip’s execution date was also moved back, and Hanson’s execution date will likely have to be changed. Both men were scheduled t…
Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Nov 04, 2022
Oklahoma has once again put off the execution of Richard Glossip, the seventh time his pending execution has been stayed or reprieved. On November 2, 2022, Governor Kevin Stitt issued a
