Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has requested the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a man in a Louisiana prison to Oklahoma so a death sentence can be carried out for a 1999 murder. >> Open the video player above to see some of the headlines KOCO 5 is following.

Oklahoma Wants Federal Inmate Transferred So He Can Be Put to Death OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so ...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing ...

Pot grows must register with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control ... Feng, 49, is now charged in Oklahoma City federal court. He is accused in a drug conspiracy count of operating four grows that sold marijuana on the black ...

On December 20, 2024, CLRP, along with ACLU-DC and Jenner & Block, filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and its Director for incarcerating thousands of people longer than the law allows under the First Step Act. Signed into law in ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons ... workers in the prisons. The BOP ranked near the bottom in employee job satisfaction among over 430 federal agencies.

Notably absent from this exemption list was the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a decision that led to the permanent loss of many positions. By 2019, Eric Young, then-president of the Council of Prison ...

According to a federal report, Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, Oklahoma's mortality rate was 396 per 100,000 in state and federal prisons, excluding executions. It's higher than the ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer from a federal prison in Louisiana.