He was among 25 inmates on Oklahoma's death row who had their execution dates set over the summer after the state's lethal injection protocol was upheld by a federal judge. Fairchild, an ex-Marine ...

Oklahoma executed a death row inmate Thursday for the brutal 1993 murder of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son — after treating the man to a final fast-food feast. Richard Fairchild, who turned ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Fairchild. Oklahoma plans to execute Fairchild on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, for the brutal slaying of his ...

With Richard Stephen Fairchild’s execution, the state has now put to death seven people since it resumed carrying out executions in October 2021. In that time, Oklahoma has carried out more ...