Oklahoma Governor Spares Death Row Inmate After Supreme Court Denies Reprieve

A state board previously voted 3-2 to recommend that Tremane Wood’s death sentence be commuted.
Oklahoma Governor Spares Death Row Inmate After Supreme Court Denies Reprieve
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt talks to media in Barnsdall, Okla., on May 7, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Nov. 13 spared the life of Tremane Wood on his scheduled date of execution hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a death row reprieve.

The Republican governor granted clemency to Wood, 46, who was about to receive a lethal injection for the stabbing death of Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old farmworker killed during a robbery attempt at an Oklahoma City hotel in 2002.