Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to death-row prisoner Tremane Laitron Wood, commuting his sentence to life without parole, just hours before he was scheduled to be executed.
Tremane Wood has petitioned the Supreme Court to review claims of prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and ineffective legal representation in his 2004 capital murder trial, as well as undisclosed emails between the Attorney General and the Court of Criminal Appeals which allegedly prejudiced his request for a new trial.
A federal judge has found Channen Smith to be “actually innocent” in the 2010 killing of Dominique Jasper, but Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is pushing to keep Smith incarcerated despite the court’s ruling and new evidence suggesting he was wrongly convicted.
Richard Glossip, who has spent nearly 30 years on death row, will face a new trial for first-degree murder, but no longer under threat of execution, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and a decision by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
An Oklahoma judge has stayed the execution of John Fitzgerald Hanson, who was convicted of killing a woman in 1999, after his attorneys argued he was denied a fair clemency hearing due to bias among board members.
By Madi W and Audrey S. OKLAHOMA CITY – Gentner Drummond, Oklahoma Attorney General, filed a brief…
By Marisol Franco WASHINGTON, DC – Late this past Friday, the attorneys for Richard Glossip, who was…