Oklahoma State Capitol Oklahoma State Capitol The Oklahoma State Capitol is the house of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the building that houses the Oklahoma Legislature and executive branch offices. It is located along Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City and contains 452,508 square feet of floor area. The present structure includes a dome completed in 2002. Oklahoma's first capital was Guthrie, Oklahoma, but it moved to Oklahoma City in 1910. Construction began on the Oklahoma State Capitol in 1914 and was completed in 1917. Originally, it housed the judicial branch of Oklahoma, but the state's high courts moved most
Capital punishment in Oklahoma on death row. Capital punishment in Oklahoma Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the third largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas and Virginia) since re-legalization following "Gregg v. Georgia " in 1976. Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the country. Oklahoma was the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as method of execution. No executions have been performed in Oklahoma since January 2015. After a three-year moratorium on lethal injection in March 2018, Oklahoma lifted aforementioned moratorium. Oklahoma