lethal injection

Wendell Grissom is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow morning. His death will mark the first execution performed by the state in 2025.

A new book argues the way states perform executions is inhumane. KOSU sat down with its author to learn about the 'untold story' of lethal injection and Oklahoma’s role in how the condemned are executed.

Oklahoma executed Emmanuel Littlejohn Thursday morning for the 1992 killing of a convenience store owner.

Oklahoma's governor waited until the day of Emmanuel Littlejohn's execution to announce whether he would grant the prisoner clemency. Littlejohn spoke to NPR.

Emmanuel Littlejohn has been on death row for 32 years. He was sentenced to death for killing an Oklahoma City convenience store clerk during a robbery in 1992 but says another man pulled the trigger.

NPR identified the company that provided Texas with execution drugs and uncovered that state and federal authorities alleged the pharmacy and some of its owners violated laws meant to protect patients

Richard Norman Rojem Jr., 66, was convicted of the 1984 murder and rape of his seven-year-old stepdaughter Layla Dawn Cummings and has been incarcerated for nearly four decades.

Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, died at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, the first death row inmate executed in Oklahoma this year.

A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.

Oklahoma executed the fourth death row inmate of the year on Thursday morning.