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KINGFISHER — An "accountant" for dozens of illegal medical marijuana farms across Oklahoma has been sentenced to prison for ...
Paul Chambers is an American academic who lived in Thailand for over 30 years while researching Southeast Asian militaries ...
Oklahoma’s $74 million deal to privatize food service in state prisons was canceled because the selected vendor failed to ...
The last prison rodeo was in 2009. State budget cuts, low attendance and crumbling facilities contributed to the rodeo closing.
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.
An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner after the governor again rejected a recommendation from the state ...
Oklahoma legislators heard a too-often-told story Wednesday about a man killed in a state prison, as experts raised concerns about staff shortages and horrible conditions in the state prison ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Efforts to bring back the prison rodeo to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary will continue during the Legislature’s upcoming session.
Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025.