Execution date set for Oklahoma man convicted in fatal stabbing of migrant farmworker

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (KOKH) — The execution date has been set for an Oklahoma man convicted of murder for stabbing a migrant farmworker from Montana to death during a robbery in Oklahoma City in 2001.

Tremane Wood will die by lethal injection on Nov. 13 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced Thursday.

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Wood’s execution was originally scheduled for Sept. 11, but Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s office requested in August that the presiding judge over the Court of Criminal Appeals push back Wood’s execution.

Earlier this year, Wood’s lawyers asked to stay his execution while his post-conviction relief case played out in court. Wood was sentenced to death for the stabbing, even though his older brother claimed at trial to be the stabber. Wood’s brother was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Wood’s execution will be the 17th under Gov. Kevin Stitt and the third in Oklahoma this year.