Oklahoma Executions News Today

In a push to save Philip Hancock's life six weeks before his execution, his defense attorney, lawmakers, and advocates filed an application for clemency and urged Governor Kevin Stitt to commute his sentence.

The state of Oklahoma executed Anthony Sanchez on Thursday, September 21, at 10:19 a.m.

The state carried out it's 2nd execution in 2023 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at 10:13am Thursday.

Members of OKC's multi-faith communities gathered Wednesday to call for a halt to the death penalty and executions in Oklahoma.

A death row minister who was inside the execution chamber during Oklahoma's last lethal injection sued the Department of Corrections for $10 million on Friday, alleging the agency and its spokesman defamed him in a statement to the media.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a motion to delay death row inmate Richard Glossip's execution once again.

Cole’s attorney said following his execution, “As Oklahoma proceeds with its relentless march to execute one mentally ill, traumatized man after another, we should pause to ask whether this is really who we are, and who we want to be.”

The state of Oklahoma intends to execute two dozen prisoners at a rate of about one a month over the next two years, utilizing a barbaric lethal injection protocol that has been shown to cause torturous death.

The rush to execution in Oklahoma comes despite clear evidence that executions have led to unconstitutionally torturous deaths. Autopsies of prisoners put to death with lethal injections including the sedative midazolam are subject to severe pulmonary edema, producing sensations of “doom, panic, drowning, and asphyxiation.”

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahomas attorney general has asked the states highest appeals...