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Steve Cook checks in with his review of this week's ROH TV.

Ian Hamilton drops by as the US-of-Jay Open Challenge sees Jay White conclude the New Beginning run of shows.

Two Oklahoma death row inmates sought death by firing squad instead as an alternative to the three-drug lethal injection protocol

The outcome of an upcoming federal trial will have long-lasting implications for the death penalty in Oklahoma.

At a trial set to begin February 28 in Oklahoma City federal court, more than two dozen death row inmates are asking a judge to find the state’s execution procedure unconstitutional due to the danger of it causing severe pain to the condemned prisoner.

McALESTER, Okla. — A man convicted of killing four people in 2005 offered no final words before being executed Thursday.

Within a span of the last four months, the state has now executed four prisoners, one of which reportedly convulsed and vomited during his execution.

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005. Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, and prison officials declared him dead at 10:14 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution since October, when the state resumed lethal injections following a nearly seven-year hiatus. Postelle, who was lying on a gurney with his arms outstretched beside him, declined to give any last words and glanced a few times at...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005.

The state killed 35-year-old Gilbert Postelle, a man with an IQ that approaches an intellectual disability who suffered from neglect and drug addiction as a child.