Support for reducing Oklahoma cockfighting penalties rises 20 years after the bloodsport was outlawed

Until Oklahoma became one of the last places in the United States to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, hundreds of spectators were packed into small arenas in the state’s countryside, often using razor-sharp steel. It was not uncommon to see roosters equipped with blades. Fight to the bloody death. More than 20 years after the ban […]