Clayton Lockett, 38, endured a horrifyingly botched execution at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping, with witnesses describing the chamber as a 'bloody me ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures Tuesday allowing the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions in other states. Other changes include more ...