Oklahoma

Criminal homicide convictions in Oklahoma can result in sentences of death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Lethal injection is used as a method of execution in Oklahoma, including at state penitentiaries.

As of November 13, 2025, firing-squad execution is legally available in Utah, Idaho, and South Carolina and is authorized as a backup execution method if other methods are unavailable in Oklahoma and Mississippi; the electric chair also remains a legal execution option in several U.S. states including South Carolina.

Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency to death row inmate Julius Jones in 2021; that was the only clemency he had granted during his tenure as governor through November 5, 2025.

Governor Kevin Stitt rejected clemency recommendations in four cases during his tenure as Oklahoma governor through November 5, 2025.

Sixteen men were executed in Oklahoma during Kevin Stitt's tenure as governor through November 5, 2025.

Oklahoma's youthful-offender law allows courts to suspend prison sentences for qualifying young offenders and impose rehabilitation requirements that, if completed, can permit the offender to remain free instead of serving the suspended term.

As of 2023-02-09, six condemned people had received clemency in Oklahoma in the modern history of capital punishment.

The strongest winds ever recorded in the United States were 321 mph (517 kph) during the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado in Oklahoma on May 3, 1999.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre began on May 31, 1921, and was a two-day violent attack on the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma.