Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Allen Gamble Correctional Center is pictured in Holdenville on Jan. 17, 2026. Dustin James Patterson didn't have to die.

McALESTER, Okla.(AP) — An Oklahoma inmate whose life was spared by Gov. Kevin Stitt just moments before he was to receive a lethal injection on Thursday was later found unresponsive inside his cell ...

A little-known medium security prison in Holdenville has had a string of homicides over the last four years, more than any other facility in the state's penal system. Those homicides received little ...