Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to debate a variety of criminal justice bills, including one that would pause the death ...

Former Rep. Kevin McDugle, R-Broken Arrow, proposed similar legislation last year. The measure passed the House Criminal ...

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 ...

Tulsa legislators have proposed pausing the death penalty and restricting for-profit tabloids and websites that exclusively ...

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 ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer ...

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 ...