LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A death has been reported at the Lawton Correctional Facility according to a GEO group spokesperson. The death is being investigated as a homicide. Later this evening we received a statement from the facility about the incident.
Five inmates walked away from Oklahoma's lower-level prisons within two weeks. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is addressing community concerns over security protocols and placement policies.
Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.
A former Oklahoma pharmacist who is now spending life in prison for murder was moved to a medical facility. Jerome Ersland is serving a life sentence after being convicted of murdering a teen during a robbery at Reliable Pharmacy in 2009.
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S.
Tulsa Police say a combination of a neighbor’s doorbell camera and the police department’s FLOCK surveillance camera system helped them track down a porch pirate suspect, who is accused of taking things from a house near 15th and Lewis on Monday.
The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”
Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kay Thompson confirmed Monday. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond sought Hanson’s transfer earlier this year, and Trump's new Attorney ...
In an unusual case, death row inmate Richard Glossip was backed by the state's Republican attorney general, who agreed the conviction was unsound.
George John Hanson, who was serving a sentence in federal prison, was transferred back to Oklahoma late Saturday so he can be executed later this year.
15, 2015. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) FILE - This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021. (Oklahoma Department of ...