Oklahoma carries out final execution of 2023
Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, was put to death for the 2001 murders of two men in Oklahoma City. He is the 11th person executed since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 2021.
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Oklahoma is set to execute 10th man in less than two years
Oklahoma has been responsible for nearly a quarter of all executions in the country since resuming the death penalty in 2021. Only Texas, which put 10 people to death in that same period, has executed more.
With a thumbs up, Oklahoma executes Jemaine Cannon for 1995 Tulsa murder
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.
Frontier managing editor Brianna Bailey wins Newspaper Writer of the Year award at the 2022 Great Plains Journalism Awards
The Frontier also won first place in the Specialty Feature category for an investigation into maternal mortality rates of Black women in Oklahoma and first place in General News Continuing Coverage for its reporting on the death penalty.
As the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board grows more active, its members find themselves under increased scrutiny from district attorneys
The attention comes as the board is playing a more pivotal role than ever in the criminal justice system in Oklahoma, finding itself embroiled in a high-profile death penalty case and hearing more commutation requests than ever.
Julius Jones to appear before Pardon and Parole Board in March
Jones, whose case has caught the attention of celebrities, athletes and musicians across the country, will be the first death row inmate to appear before the board as he seeks to have his death penalty sentence commuted.
Unable to purchase execution equipment, Oklahoma poised to build the device itself
Monday will mark five years since the botched Clayton Lockett execution. As Oklahoma attempts to move forward with a new death penalty protocol, the state is finding that implementing it will be harder than anticipated.
Was ‘Cowboy’ Bob Macy product of his time or ‘deadliest’ DA?
A new study ranks the nation’s ‘deadliest’ prosecutors, including Oklahoma’s Bob Macy (#2). The authors say their findings indicate “it was these individual personalities, not an excessive attachment to the death penalty by local residents, that drove up the rates of death sentencing.”
