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Oklahoma and its affinity for the death penalty
Yahoo News· 2 years agoOklahoma last week began what many are viewing as a state-sanctioned onslaught on its incarcerated population — executing its first death row inmate out...
Oklahoma readies for 25 executions in 2 years. But critics ask, 'Why the rush?'
Yahoo News· 2 years agoOklahoma is set to execute its first of more than two dozen death row inmates over the next 29...
Fake 'active shooter' threats continue to plague schools across U.S.
Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast week, more than five states across the U.S. experienced calls to 911 reporting fake active...
Oklahoma Republican lawmakers call for moratorium on capital punishment as state picks up pace of...
Yahoo News· 1 year agoThree Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion advocates in Oklahoma on Wednesday called for a...
Oklahoma's top education official embraces culture wars
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoWhen Oklahoma’s newly elected Republican head of public schools campaigned for the job last fall, he...
2022 saw a record number of ‘botched’ executions, report finds
Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than a third of the country’s execution attempts this year were “botched” or deemed visibly...
Here's how each U.S. state is benefiting from Biden's $1.2T infrastructure law
Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoPresident Biden signed the US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law in November...
Why is Florida the only state to pass a full-on ‘curricula ban’?
Yahoo News· 1 year ago“Of all the states that have considered curricular bans in the last few years, just one state...
Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoIt was a frigid Sunday evening at the Catholic Newman Center in Salt Lake City when the priest...
Oklahoma approves first publicly funded Catholic school in US
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoAn Oklahoma school board on Monday approved the Catholic Church's application to create the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the U.S. Opponents of the school have vowed a legal ...