A bill to change the make up of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board for the first time in decades, if ever, advanced at the state capitol on Wednesday.
Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to grant him clemency.
“Whether you support capital punishment or oppose it, one thing is clear: From start to finish, the Oklahoma capital punishment system is fundamentally broken.”
Oklahoma City, May 4, 2023 The conviction and death sentence under which Richard Glossip has lived on Oklahoma’s death row for 25 years has been at center of intense