by Bert | Nov 2, 2016 | Oklahoma
For years Oklahoma prosecutors have encouraged family members of murder victims to tell jurors that they wanted to see a sentence of death imposed upon the capital defendant charged for the crime. But, years ago the Supreme Court held that a victim’s family members’...
by Alec | Sep 28, 2015 | Oklahoma, The Open File Blog
In what appears to be a remarkably brazen attempt to intimidate two witnesses who have offered sworn testimony that a man about to be executed is in fact innocent, it seems that Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater’s office arranged for two men to be...
by OpenFile | Apr 1, 2014 | Oklahoma, The Open File Blog
Two Oklahoma City prosecutors who were fired for withholding exculpatory evidence in a 2012 murder case are now facing disciplinary action from the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The Oklahoma State Bar has asked the Supreme Court to reprimand former district attorneys Pamela...
by OpenFile | Mar 18, 2014 | Oklahoma, The Open File Blog
Public record documents uncovered by reporter Katie Fretland at the Colorado Independent reveal new, disturbing facts about lethal injection in Oklahoma including untoward jokes made by assistant attorneys general involved in the acquisition of lethal injection drugs....
by OpenFile | Jul 31, 2013 | Oklahoma, The Open File Blog
On July 24, 2013, the Oklahoma Innocence Project filed its first application for post-conviction relief in the case of Karl Fontenot, a convicted murderer who used to be on Oklahoma’s death row. Fontenot was charged with murder in the 1984 disappearance of Donna...
