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

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

A Texas judge has granted the state's motion to dismiss District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio after she was accused of bias ...

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

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

Death row inmates get support from unlikely sources While support for the death penalty remains entrenched in Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma, some conservative lawmakers and prosecutors in those ...

An autopsy report released by the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner provides insight into the 2024 death of Cleveland County ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised ...

A woman detained at t County jail killed herself in 2019. Her estate has reached a $250,000 settlement in federal court.

A 72-page inspection report of the Oklahoma County Detention Center shows deficiencies like missed sight checks, missed ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

She backed her brother, Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, through decades of frustrating, at times apparently hopeless, legal wrangling as his mental condition worsened.