A deputy warden at Nebraska’s youth prison will soon chair the state’s Board of Parole, Gov. Jim Pillen’s office announced ...

Oklahoma executed John Fitzgerald Hanson by lethal injection for carjacking, kidnapping, and murdering Mary Bowles. Hanson was also found guilty of killing of witness Jerald Thurman. His execution ...

The term of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles leader who has overseen and defended single-digit parole rates in recent years expires next week.

After the Supreme Court overturned Richard Glossip’s conviction, prosecutors claimed to have “a plethora of evidence,” while ...

Kevin Stitt and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, and for prosecuting people protesting the murder of George Floyd in 2020, among other controversies. As Oklahoma County's top prosecutor, Prater ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Oklahoma is scheduled to execute John Fitzgerald Hanson ... minute appeal that he did not receive a fair clemency hearing in May, claiming that one of the board members who denied him clemency was ...

An Oklahoma appeals court has ordered a stay of execution for a man on death row to be lifted, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued ...

An Oklahoma judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt will have the final say on Jones' future. “Governor Stitt is aware of the Pardon and Parole Board’s vote today,” Stitt spokeswoman Carly Atchison said in a statement.

The board was scheduled to consider 251 parole cases in meetings that had been scheduled for Dec. 2-4 in Oklahoma City. Those cases will now have to be considered along with 260 others when ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board is facing a backlog and could be forced to review as many as 550 parole cases in January after this month’s meeting was canceled when two members resigned. The ...