William Lewis Reece confessed to one killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. All the victims were female.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Oklahoma on Thursday executed its longest-serving death row inmate — a fiend who kidnapped, raped and murdered his 7-year-old former stepdaughter in 1984.. Richard Rojem, 66, was declared dead ...

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 ...

Oklahoma to resume execution by lethal injection 00:48. Oklahoma's new Attorney General Gentner Drummond plans to ask the state's Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday to recommend sparing the life ...

The Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the oldest prison in the state, has seen its inmate population fall to less than half of what it was five years ago as ...

A man convicted for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005 was scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The execution of Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, will ...

After his sentence to life in prison, Maas was confined in Kansas because Oklahoma was not yet a state and had no prison. But when the penitentiary at McAlester opened in 1910, he was among its ...

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.