“Really, the heart of this petition is about criminal justice reform,” said Michelle Tilley, campaign manager for Yes on 820. The group has raised over $3 million to support legalizing marijuana in Oklahoma.
There have been at least six police shootings in Oklahoma in 2023.
Pottawatomie County officials released a redacted video with blurred faces after The Frontier sued for its release.
Gentner Drummond will decide whether to file charges in cases involving Swadley’s restaurants and Commissioners of the Land Office once investigations conclude.
“I’m glad our enemy is dead,” said a family member of A.J. and Patsy Cantrell, who Eizember killed in 2003. Eizember, in his final statement, said “my conscience is clear, completely.”
Martinez was found by police sitting in the driver’s seat of his parked car. Oklahoma law forbids anyone convicted of a felony from serving in the Legislature.
The Frontier sued Pottawatomie County jail officials after they withheld records related to the death of Ronald Gene Given in 2019.
Fairchild, convicted in the brutal murder of a 3-year old boy, is the state’s fifth execution of 2022. Almost one-third of U.S. executions this year have taken place in Oklahoma.
