At first Oklahoma prison officials suspected that a new drug combination caused Clayton Lockett to writhe in pain and clench his teeth during a botched execution. But a new autopsy report reveals that ...

Republican Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, here with Michael C. Thompson, state secretary of safety and security, charged that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its jurisdiction when it called for a ...

More than 5,000 pages of interview transcripts and other records were released following a lawsuit against the state by the Tulsa World and Enterprise Editor Ziva Branstetter. Records released Friday, ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

The death-row inmate scheduled for execution in Oklahoma following the a botched lethal injection of another prisoner asked a court Monday for a six-month delay while the investigation continues.