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William Lewis Reece confessed to one killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. All the victims were female.
Feng Jiang was sentenced in Oklahoma County District Court. He faces deportation to China after his release from prison.
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) announced plans to rename the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility ...
KINGFISHER — An "accountant" for dozens of illegal medical marijuana farms across Oklahoma has been sentenced to prison for ...
Efforts to bring back the prison rodeo to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary will continue during the Legislature’s upcoming session. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections pursued an $8.3 million ...
Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — 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.
Transferred to Oklahoma State Penitentiary on 06/03/2008. On death row for 17 years. No violent or security-related misconduct documented during incarceration.
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 ...
Editor’s note: This story is part of Oklahoma Voice’s “Whatever Happened To …” end-of-year series that provides updates to some stories that captured the interest of Oklahomans in 2023 and ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Efforts to bring back the prison rodeo to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary will continue during the Legislature’s upcoming session.