Pardon and Parole Board

Hancock was convicted for the 2001 murders of Robert Jett and James Lynch.

Two members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board resigned earlier this summer, officially leaving the board following the August meeting Tuesday.

An Oklahoma death row inmate is rejecting the opportunity to have a clemency hearing.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss death row inmate Richard Glossip failing to get clemency from the Pardon and Parole Board despite pleas from Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Gov. Kevin Stitt searching for all "legal avenues" to remove McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy after he made racist and hateful remarks.

Despite an unprecedented amount of support from state officials, a split vote from the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board led to no recommendation for clemency for death row inmate Richard Glossip.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend clemency to death row inmate James Coddington, who iss on death row for the 1997 murder of his friend Albert Troy Hale in Choctaw.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a special legislative session to determine how to spend $2 billion in COVID-19 relief funds, a nearly $10 billion budget proposal and a hearing on the Department of Tourism's deal with Swadley's Bar-B-Q.

Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed Cathy Stocker to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Thursday. She replaces Kelly Doyle, who abruptly resigned in March.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the Secretary of Defense denying a request from Gov. Kevin Stitt of a COVID-19 vaccination waiver and a federal judge putting an injunction against vaccine mandates against health care workers in facilities receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding.

By a vote of 3 to 2, the board recommended clemency for death row inmate Bigler Jobe Stouffer II. Its recommendation is for life without the possibility of parole.