Under the state Constitution, the Governor of Oklahoma may grant a commutation of the death sentence, but only with advice and consent of the five-member Pardon and Parole Board.
[13] In 2014, Oklahoma placed scheduled executions on hold until the state's Department of Corrections implemented eleven proposed improvements in protocols governing capital punishment.
There should be no more executions in Oklahoma until we go trial in February to address the state's problematic lethal injection protocol.
[19] After struggling for years to design a nitrogen execution protocol and to obtain a proper device for it, Oklahoma announced in February 2020 that it had abandoned the project after finding a new reliable source of lethal injection drugs, nitrogen hypoxia remains an alternative method.
Female death row prisoners are housed at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center located near McLoud, Oklahoma and are transferred to OSP for their execution.
[citation needed] As of February 3, 2025[update], Oklahoma had 31 inmates on death row, of whom only one, Brenda Andrew, is female.