Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her ...

Oklahoma lawmakers filed dozens of criminal justice bills ahead of the Jan. 16 deadline, including ambitious proposals to ...

George John Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a 77-year-old woman who was carjacked and kidnapped from a ...

The Oklahoma Attorney General is asking the federal government to transfer a death row inmate back into the state's custody for execution in line with a Presidential Executive Order regarding ...

Oklahoma’s top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking for convicted murderer George John Hanson to be transferred from federal prison ...

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request to transfer John Hanson was denied. He murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred from federal prison ...

Proposals to make the Pardon and Parole Board members full-time state employees, institute a death penalty moratorium and mandate automatic expungement are up for consideration this year.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking a state board to deny clemency for a man set for execution in March. Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was convicted and sentenced to death by a Blaine ...