This Feb. 5, 2021 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Michael Dewayne Smith, who is scheduled to be executed on April 4, 2024. His attorneys made a last-ditch plea for ...

OKLAHOMA CITYOKLAHOMA CITY — The lethal injection of an Oklahoma man scheduled to be executed next month has been paused for 100 days so that a hearing can be held to determine if he’s mentally ...

OKLAHOMA CITYOKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he is confident in the state’s current lethal injection protocols and has no plans to endorse a switch to nitrogen gas, even as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oklahoma regulators are imposing new restrictions on energy companies injecting wastewater underground as they produce oil and natural gas, in the latest effort to stem a sharp ...

A drug is headed to the Supreme Court: midazolam, which makes up a third of the lethal cocktail used in Oklahoma’s botched execution last year. During his April 2014 execution, death row inmate ...

Staff at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission directed that an injection well operated by SandRidge Energy be shut down Tuesday due to continuing earthquakes in Alfalfa County near the Kansas border.

McALESTER, Okla. (KOKH) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday morning 20 years after he murdered a woman during a home invasion and robbery. Wendell Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead by lethal injection ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of corrections shows James Chandler Ryder, whose scheduled execution next month has been paused for 100 days so that a hearing can be ...