Oklahoma hasn’t attempted an execution since a series of bungled attempts ushered in a six-year moratorium on capital punishment. Now it says it’s ready to execute seven men in three-week intervals beginning as early as next month.
For more than a year, Pottawatomie County officials have denied access to the records in connection with the death of Ronald Gene Given.
Jones’ attorneys believe the Pardon and Parole Board investigator recommended Jones have his sentence commuted. The board’s attorney says the “investigator recommendation” isn’t actually a recommendation.
The money Oklahoma saved from sending fewer people to prison was supposed to finance county mental health programs. But the Legislature has never sent any money to the fund and no rules have been written for how the money can be spent.
Oklahoma’s largest city has not yet mandated vaccination for existing police officers and firefighters, which would require negotiations with their unions.
State investigators have found nearly two dozen fatal overdoses over the past 15 months tied to fake oxycodone.
A panel of judges finds that prosecutors had ‘an extremely weak’ case against Karl Fontenot.
Growing demand for beds means there’s a long waiting list for people with severe mental illness trapped in the state’s criminal justice system.
