LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A death has been reported at the Lawton Correctional Facility according to a GEO group spokesperson. The death is being investigated as a homicide. Later this evening we received a statement from the facility about the incident.

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Five inmates walked away from Oklahoma's lower-level prisons within two weeks. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is addressing community concerns over security protocols and placement policies.

A former Oklahoma pharmacist who is now spending life in prison for murder was moved to a medical facility. Jerome Ersland is serving a life sentence after being convicted of murdering a teen during a robbery at Reliable Pharmacy in 2009.

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S.

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face execution. The transfer came 40 days after President Donald Trump issued an executive order "restoring" the death penalty. The Biden administration had blocked Hanson's return in 2022.

The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”

Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kay Thompson confirmed Monday. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond sought Hanson’s transfer earlier this year, and Trump's new Attorney ...

“That’s what you’ll be left with.” Data from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows that deaths involving alcohol or drugs have gradually increased since 2014. There were 30 related deaths in 2023. Staff at prisons across the state have ...

Richard Glossip has been on death row for more than 25 years. His case has bounced between state and federal court, but he now could get a new trial.

George John Hanson, who was serving a sentence in federal prison, was transferred back to Oklahoma late Saturday so he can be executed later this year.