Raymond Eugene Johnson is set for execution May 14 for the 2007 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter in Tulsa.

Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for ...

A crack addict named Melvin Trotter fatally stabbed 70-year-old Virgie Langford in the corner grocery store she ran for 50 years.

As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has ...

Kendrick Simpson, who killed two people during a 2006 drive-by shooting in Oklahoma City, was executed Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Some homicides at a prison in Oklahoma led to criminal charges. Some did not. Here's a timeline of the deaths.

Ronald Palmer Heath was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder, robbery with a death weapon and multiple forgery charges.

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The donations will go to children at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center and to local law enforcement agencies. Farms that qualify are recognized on the opening day of the Georgia National Fair. Recipients ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...