David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...

The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution. No state court has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a ...

Only Texas has carried out more executions since Oklahoma resumed lethal injections three years ago. Oklahoma started doing ...

Oklahoma started doing executions again on ... Kevin Stitt announced his decision on clemency just four hours before the execution was set to start. Other inmates have been granted execution ...

Oklahoma County's new DA is taking a committee approach to deciding whether a murder case warrants the death penalty.

Who has faced criminal charges after our reporting on organized crime in Oklahoma’s marijuana industry? Will the state be forced to buy out landowners flooded by Grand Lake? The Frontier is updating ...

Oklahoma County leads the way in a state with the highest per capita execution rate. In 2022, the Death Penalty Information Center reported it was the nation’s "third-most pro­lif­ic coun­ty ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 23 people were executed in the United States in 2023. The number of death sentences imposed was 21. There are 2,180 people on death row in the United ...