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Oklahoma governor grants clemency for death row inmate after state panel recommendation
- On Thursday, November 13, 2025, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood's death sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole minutes before a scheduled execution at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, issuing a news release at 10:01 a.m.
- The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board cited trial problems and possible prosecutorial misconduct, citing 'prosecutors lied to jurors' and 'ineffective trial attorney' as reasons for clemency.
- Wood's case features a 2004 confession by his brother Zjaiton 'Jake' Wood, and at the clemency hearing Wood admitted involvement in the robbery but blamed his brother; investigators found evidence on contraband cellphones and conducted searches of relatives' homes.
- Victims' relatives Barbara Wipf and Arnold Kleinsasser opposed execution on religious grounds, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said, "I am disappointed that the governor has granted clemency for this dangerous murderer, but respect that this was his decision to make," while Conservatives Concerned praised the mercy.
- The commutation followed a Supreme Court denial about an hour earlier and marks Stitt's rare clemency after Julius Jones, amid Oklahoma death penalty policy and prosecutorial misconduct debates.
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A man from Oklahoma who was to be executed on Thursday for a 2002 murder was saved after a last-minute decision by the state governor, but will continue in life imprisonment. Tremane Wood, 46, was to receive a lethal injection at 10 a.m. local (16.00 GMT) at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, United States, for the murder of 19-year-old Ronnie Wipf during a robbery. Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole recommended the change of sentence f…
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The relevant committee recommended that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, accepting that he was not properly represented by his appointed counsel.
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