Oklahoma School for the Deaf Oklahoma School for the Deaf Oklahoma School for the Deaf (OSD) is a residential school for the deaf and hard of hearing students ages 2 through 18. The school teaches K-12 students in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The first school in what would later become the state of Oklahoma to give instruction to deaf children was at Fort Gibson.This school, started by a Mrs. Lowery, provided for the education of blind Indian children of the Five Civilized Tribes. Later, deaf children were admitted. In 1898, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Long started a school for deaf children in Guthrie,then the capital of Oklahoma
Capital punishment in Oklahoma 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 will now use