Patsy Cantrell News Today

The past year has been affected by change, challenge, and growth in the McAlester area.

The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty says a national organization and its partner are driving a wedge between death-row inmates and their attorneys.

The Rev. Jeff Hood told Newsweek about his experience being in the execution chamber while Scott Eizember and Arthur Brown Jr. were put to death this year.

Jemaine Cannon, 51, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. This is the ninth execution since the state resumed lethal injections in 2021.

Fourteen convicted killers have been executed so far in 2023, beginning with the first transgender death row inmate to ever be put to death and culminating in an ongoing scandal over the safety of the practice.

Death row inmate Jemaine Cannon, 51, was executed on Thursday after being convicted of fatally stabbing Sharonda Clark, 20, with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center.

Lindsey Barnett said she felt compelled outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester to speak with the spiritual adviser of the man who was executed in January for murdering her

Lindsey Barnett said she felt compelled outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester to speak with the spiritual adviser of the man who was executed in January for murdering her

Lindsey Barnett said she felt compelled outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester to speak with the spiritual adviser of the man who was executed in January for murdering her

  Occasionally, God grants us serendipitous encounters the synchronicity of which cannot be denied.  Such was the case when Lindsey Barnett stopped