was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025. Grissom and a co-defendant, Jessie Floyd Johns, were ...

Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom on Thursday for the murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews in front of her best friend’s two ...

Hanson was in federal prison in Louisiana but was transferred back to Oklahoma to face execution. The Biden administration refused to hand him over in 2022, but the Trump administration approved ...

Dreu Kopf was hanging out at home with her young daughters and dear friend Amber Matthews when Wendell Grissom barged in and ...

Since taking office, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has approved of every death row case in the state — except ...

Oklahoma County District Judge Susan Stallings will hear testimony this week and report back to the Oklahoma Court of ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set an execution date for a death row inmate convicted of killing a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

George John Hanson, also known as John Fitzgerald Hanson, is scheduled to die on June 12 for the 1999 murder of 77-year-old ...

An execution date has been set for an Oklahoma prisoner who is convicted of killing a 77-year-old woman. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced on Tuesday that John Hanson is ...

An execution moratorium proposed by Sen. Dave Rader passed through the Judiciary Committee but did not receive a vote by the ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order Tuesday setting the execution date. His execution had been scheduled ...

A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. It was the first execution in Oklahoma this year and the ninth in the United States. Six were ...