The first executions since 2015 in Oklahoma were scheduled Monday. They’re slated to start on Oct. 28. Oklahoma officials say the seven inmates scheduled to be executed have exhausted all of the appeals and that no further legal impediments to their executions remain, state judges said. Additionally, the inmates last month who had joined a…
Oklahoma Court Declines to Bar Duo From Death Penalty Case
OKLAHOMA CITY—The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to remove two members of the state’s Pardon and Parole Board from a high-profile death penalty case. The court’s brief ruling on Friday denied a prosecutor’s request to remove Adam Luck and Kelly Doyle from considering the commutation request of Julius Jones, who was sentenced to…
Oklahoma Pushes Back 7 Executions Due to Notice Requirement
Oklahoma City—The Oklahoma attorney general’s office has asked the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals to push back execution dates for seven death row inmates based on requirements to give a 35-day notice before any execution. Attorney General John O’Connor asked the court in a brief filed Friday to schedule John Marion Grant’s execution for Oct….
House Rep. Says He Is ‘Heading Home’ After Reported Afghanistan Evacuation Effort
An Oklahoma Republican congressman said that he is “heading home” after reports that his whereabouts were unknown after he allegedly tried to carry out a rescue mission of Americans trapped in Afghanistan. “I am heading home,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) wrote on Wednesday in an Instagram post. “Have we been helping get Americans out of…
Oklahoma Court Reverses McGirt Rulings in 4 Death Cases
OKLAHOMA CITY—An Oklahoma appeals court on Tuesday reversed four of its previous rulings that overturned death penalty cases based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals vacated rulings in the cases of death row inmates Shaun Bosse, James Ryder, Miles Bench…
Judge Orders Oklahoma to Reinstate $300 Federal Jobless Benefit
An Oklahoma judge has ordered the state to resume the expanded federal unemployment benefits that were implemented during last year’s pandemic relief efforts and were cut off in June. District Judge Anthony Bonner Jr. on Aug. 6 issued a preliminary injunction blocking the state from ending the $300 a week supplemental federal pandemic jobless benefit…
Oklahoma AG Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling on Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn—or at least narrow the scope of—a landmark 2020 ruling on tribal sovereignty that he said was inadvertently leading to a “criminal-justice crisis” and putting the public in danger. O’Connor, a Republican, said in a Friday filing (pdf) that that the Supreme Court’s 5–4 ruling in…
Teen Turns Around Life of Heroin Addiction, Qualifies for Ironman World Championship
A former high-school drug addict has proved that nothing is impossible if one is ready to face the challenges head-on. Noel Mulkey, 26, from Oklahoma, who became sober six years ago, finished Tulsa’s first Ironman Triathlon on May 23 to qualify for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii later this year. Rewriting his life story all…
Oklahoma GOP Votes Against Censuring Lankford, Inhofe
July 17, 2021
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The Oklahoma state Republican party on Saturday voted against censuring the two U.S. Senators from the Sooner State. The state committee rejected a resolution proposed by the Osage County Republican Party to censure Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for failing to object to the certification of the 2020 electoral votes by 122:93…
Oklahoma GOP Votes Against Censure of Lankford, Inhofe
July 17, 2021
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The Oklahoma state Republican Party voted on July 17 against censuring the state’s two GOP U.S. senators. The state committee, in a 122–93 vote, rejected a resolution proposed by the Osage County Republican Party that sought to censure Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for failing to object to the certification of electoral votes in…
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