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1 week ago | 
kgou.org | Sierra Pfeifer
Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma's death row. They met at a federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday morning to take another look at Andrew's trial record, after the U.S. Supreme Court sent her case back to the circuit court in January. The judges could uphold Andrew's conviction, her death sentence, or both, or they could ask the state to retry her case.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Sierra Pfeifer
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about the time I’ve lost. In 1983, at the age of 18, I was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a woman …
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1 week ago | 
kosu.org | Sierra Pfeifer
Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row. They met at a federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday morning to take another look at Andrew’s trial record, after the U.S. Supreme Court sent her case back to the circuit court in January. The judges could uphold Andrew’s conviction, her death sentence, or both, or they could ask the state to retry her case.
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1 week ago | 
kgou.org | Sierra Pfeifer
An Oklahoma County judge has yet to decide if Richard Glossip will be released on bail while he waits to be retried for murder. In a court hearing on Tuesday, Oklahoma County Judge Heather Coyle said she needs more time to review transcripts from Glossip's previous trials before she can make a decision about his release. She said she expects to issue a written order by July 23.
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1 week ago | 
hppr.org | Sierra Pfeifer |Brianna Bailey
This story was produced in partnership with The Frontier. Oklahoma has missed several deadlines on a plan to improve wait times to treat people with severe mental illness charged with crimes, consultants said in a new report.
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1 week ago | 
kosu.org | Thomas Pablo |Sierra Pfeifer
An Oklahoma County judge has yet to decide if Richard Glossip will be released on bail while he waits to be retried for murder. In a court hearing on Tuesday, Oklahoma County Judge Heather Coyle said she needs more time to review transcripts from Glossip’s previous trials before she can make a decision about his release. She said she expects to issue a written order by July 23.
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1 week ago | 
kosu.org | Sierra Pfeifer |Brianna Bailey
This story was produced in partnership with The Frontier. Oklahoma has missed several deadlines on a plan to improve wait times to treat people with severe mental illness charged with crimes, consultants said in a new report.
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1 week ago | 
kgou.org | Sierra Pfeifer
Officials at Oklahoma's mental health agency say they plan to redistribute 20 naloxone vending machines to new locations across the state, shifting the responsibility for stocking them to local partners. In the midst of multiple investigations into agency finances, and before state lawmakers were able to discern the size of its $30 million budget shortfall, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services announced the new initiative in early May.
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2 weeks ago | 
hppr.org | Sierra Pfeifer
George John Hanson was executed in McAlester, Oklahoma Thursday morning, following his recent transfer to the state by the Trump administration. Hanson, also referred to John Fitzgerald Hanson in some court documents, died by lethal injection at 10:11 am, according to prison officials. He was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles. "Peace to everyone," Hanson, 61, said in his final moments, according to media witnesses.
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2 weeks ago | 
hppr.org | Sierra Pfeifer
Officials at Oklahoma's mental health agency say they plan to redistribute 20 naloxone vending machines to new locations across the state, shifting the responsibility for stocking them to local partners. In the midst of multiple investigations into agency finances, and before state lawmakers were able to discern the size of its $30 million budget shortfall, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services announced the new initiative in early May.
