LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A death has been reported at the Lawton Correctional Facility according to a GEO group spokesperson. The death is being investigated as a homicide. Later this evening we received a statement from the facility about the incident.
Five inmates walked away from Oklahoma's lower-level prisons within two weeks. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is addressing community concerns over security protocols and placement policies.
Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.
A former Oklahoma pharmacist who is now spending life in prison for murder was moved to a medical facility. Jerome Ersland is serving a life sentence after being convicted of murdering a teen during a robbery at Reliable Pharmacy in 2009.
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S.
The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”
Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kay Thompson confirmed Monday. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond sought Hanson’s transfer earlier this year, and Trump's new Attorney ...
The Supreme Court ordered that an Oklahoma man convicted of murder, Richard Glossip, who has been scheduled for execution nine times, must now receive a new trial.
Richard Glossip has been on death row for more than 25 years. His case has bounced between state and federal court, but he now could get a new trial.
Transfer of custody to ICE for deportation proceedings. Under the new initiative, nonviolent offenders in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections may also be identified for removal before completing their full sentences, pending federal ...
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial,
15, 2015. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) FILE - This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021. (Oklahoma Department of ...