Rep. Monroe Nichols, D-Tulsa, is one of the more outspoken members of Oklahoma’s Legislature. Now he wants to take his talents to Tulsa’s City Hall where he would become the city’s first Black mayor. The election isn’t for 12 months, but Nichols declared his candidacy early in order to get a head start campaigning, and, …
Tulsa Superintendent Deborah Gist is expected to resign in hopes of avoiding a state takeover.
Cannon was the second person executed by Oklahoma in 2023, and the ninth since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 2021. Two more executions are scheduled this year as the state continues to empty out its death row.
Jemaine Cannon, 51, is set to die for the 1995 murder of Sharonda White Clark. Cannon will be the second person Oklahoma has put to death this year and the ninth since the state resumed executions in 2021.
Oklahoma has scheduled Glossip for death nine times since 2015. With just weeks remaining before his scheduled execution, he’s relying on an unlikely ally to save his life – Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
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Despite lower turnout, data shows rural and urban parts of the state shifted dramatically from the state’s 2018 vote on medical cannabis. A proposal to legalize recreational use failed in every county.
There were at least 25 fatal police shootings in Oklahoma in 2023.
