Nation

Though the state of Oklahoma’s executions are under currently review by the Supreme Court (and Attorney General Eric Holder advocates a moratorium on all state-murders while the court deliberates), Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin recently signed a law making nitrogen gas the backup to lethal injections in the state, according to NBC News. Fallin said in a […]

Crime

On Thursday evening, Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner (pictured), the first execution the state has held since the botched one that took place last year, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: John Legend To Sing At Super Bowl The state executed Warner (pictured), a man convicted for raping and killing an 11-month old in Oklahoma […]

  Clayton Lockett (pictured0, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary inmate who suffered a heart attack after a failed execution by lethal injection last April, was apparently the victim of a botched operation by the prison’s execution team. During an independent autopsy performed by a forensic pathologist in May, it was discovered that the team failed to […]