Oklahoma is set to execute a man after a state panel recommended his life be spared

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a antheral aft a authorities sheet recommended his beingness beryllium spared

McALESTER, Okla. -- A antheral who denies stabbing a migrant farmworker to decease during a 2002 robbery remains scheduled for execution Thursday successful Oklahoma. A authorities sheet recommended that his beingness beryllium spared.

Tremane Wood, 46, is scheduled to person a lethal injection astatine the Oklahoma State Penitentiary successful McAlester. The Pardon and Parole Board issued an uncommon clemency recommendation past week. If Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt takes nary action, Wood's execution is expected to proceed astatine 10 a.m.

“I’m not a monster. I’m not a killer," Wood told the committee via a video nexus from prison. “I ne'er was, and I ne'er person been.”

Stitt, who has served 2 presumption and cannot tally for reelection successful 2026, has only granted clemency once during his astir 7 years arsenic governor.

A spokesperson for his bureau said helium planned to conscionable with prosecutors, defence attorneys and members of the victim's household earlier making a decision.

Wood was sentenced to dice for his relation successful the stabbing decease of Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old migrant farmworker from Montana, during a botched robbery effort astatine a northbound Oklahoma City edifice connected New Year's Day 2002.

Wood’s attorneys person not denied that helium participated successful the robbery but support that his brother, Zjaiton Wood, was the 1 who stabbed Wipf. Zjaiton Wood was sentenced to beingness without parole and died successful situation successful 2019 aft admitting to respective radical that helium killed Wipf, said Tremane Wood’s attorney, Amanda Bass Castro Alves.

Wood’s attorneys besides person asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution. They argue, among different things, that proceedings prosecutors didn’t decently uncover details of a plea statement with a cardinal witness.

Prosecutors person painted Wood arsenic a unsafe transgression who has continued to enactment successful pack enactment and perpetrate crimes portion incarcerated, including buying and selling drugs, utilizing contraband cellphones and ordering attacks connected different radical successful the prison.

“Even wrong the confines of maximum information prison, Tremane Wood has continued to manipulate, exploit and harm others,” Attorney General Gentner Drummond said.

During his grounds past week, Wood accepted work for his situation misconduct and his information successful the robbery, but reiterated that helium was not the 1 who killed Wipf.

“I regret my relation successful everything that happened that night,” helium said.

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