Tremane Wood
Granted Clemency
Minutes Before Being Executed
Published
Tremane Wood should be taking an enormous breath of recent air proper about now — as a result of he was granted clemency simply minutes earlier than his scheduled execution.
The inmate — who’s been imprisoned on the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for over twenty years — was about to be put to demise Thursday when the process was stopped by the Governor Kevin Stitt, in accordance with the Associated Press.
Stitt accepted the Oklahoma prison and parole board’s suggestion to have Wood’s sentence commuted to life in prison with out parole. Stitt has solely granted clemency to a prisoner solely as soon as throughout his tenure as governor.
What’s additionally fascinating is the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from Wood’s lawyer to remain the execution.
Wood was convicted of felony murder within the 2002 demise of Ronnie Wipf throughout an unsuccessful theft. Wood’s attorneys maintained his brother Zjaiton was the one who’d killed Wipf.
Zjaiton, who was sentenced to life with out parole for his function within the murder, died in prison in 2019. He apparently admitted to being the one who’d stabbed Wipf to a number of people previous to his demise.
Stitt issued an announcement concerning the stopped execution, and he described Wood’s new sentence as “a severe punishment” which might serve to maintain the prisoner, whom he described as a “violent offender,” away from the general public.
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