Adam Luck, the former Chair of Oklahoma’s Board of Pardons and Parole and a former member of the Oklahoma Board of ...

TheOklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a vigil Thursday morning during death row inmate Wendell ...

McAlester, Okla. — Oklahoma executed a man on Thursday for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Grissom by lethal injection for the 2005 murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews. Grissom's attorneys argue that the death penalty should not apply to him because of ...

A bill to reduce sentences for domestic abuse survivors who "fail to protect" their children failed in the Oklahoma ...

Matthews aunt, Rita Russell, told the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board last month that her niece was a “pretty angel.” “We never got to see her get married or have kids. She loved kids," she ...

"I'm not a monster," Grissom wrote to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board in 2019. "Please, somehow look past that one day in my life, for it's not who I am at all." Grissom’s lawyers have ...

Wendell Arden Grissom was convicted of the 2005 murder of Amber Matthews during a Blaine County home invasion.

Grissom, 56, rejected an opportunity last month to speak before Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board, which voted 4-1 to deny clemency ahead of the March 20 scheduled execution via lethal injection.

Oklahoma prepared to execute a man on Thursday ... damage that was never presented to a jury. The state’s Pardon and Parole Board denied Grissom’s request. His attorneys told the board Grissom ...