Oklahoma plans to resume executions by using nitrogen or another gas to starve an inmate of oxygen because it cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, state officials said on Wednesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Feb. 5, 2021 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Michael Dewayne Smith, who is scheduled to ...

Monitor seismic activity near the well. Garfield County commissioners approved a land use application Monday from Ursa Resources Group for an injection well just outside of Battlement Mesa and ...

Oklahoma executed a death row inmate Thursday morning. He had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old baby in 2007.

Oklahoma man Raymond Johnson executed by lethal injection for brutal murder of ex and her infant - His execution marked the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year. Kevin Ray ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of corrections shows James Chandler Ryder, whose scheduled execution next month has been paused for 100 days so that a hearing can be ...

OKLAHOMA CITYOKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he is confident in the state’s current lethal injection protocols and has no plans to endorse a switch to nitrogen gas, even as ...

Staff at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission directed that an injection well operated by SandRidge Energy be shut down ...

OKLAHOMA CITYOKLAHOMA CITY — A state panel on Wednesday denied clemency for an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago, paving ...