Death row inmate Byron James Shepard died Tuesday, almost eight years after he fatally shot a Tecumseh police officer during ...

A man on Oklahoma death row for killing a Tecumseh police officer during a traffic stop in 2017 has died in prison.

By Kim Morava, News-Star Byron James Shepard, the man convicted and jailed on Oklahoma’s death row for the 2017 shooting ...

He shot Tecumseh Police Officer Justin Terney in 2017 while facing arrest on a complaint of concealing stolen property.

An Oklahoma man sentenced to death for killing a Texas couple as they camped in the Sooner State had his sentence commuted by ...

Two death row inmates are refusing to sign paperwork accepting President Joe Biden ’s commutation of their sentences to life ...

including two men with connections to crimes in Oklahoma and neighboring states. Related Story: Biden Commutes Sentences Of Federal Death Row Inmates To Life In Prison Without Parole Here’s a ...

Nine states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah—carried out executions this ...

Agofsky was convicted in the 1989 murder of an Oklahoma bank president ... but he refused because his status as a death row inmate afforded him legal counsel that is critical in his appeals.

Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org ... the former Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director ...