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Drummond commends Pardon and Parole Board for clemency denial

Thursday, April 9 by Ponca City Now

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Gentner Drummond commended the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board's decision to deny clemency for convicted murderer Raymond Johnson. Johnson was sentenced to death for the brutal 2007 murders of Brooke Whitaker and her seven-month-old daughter, Kya. Evidence presented at trial showed that Johnson repeatedly struck Whitaker with a claw hammer during... Read More.

Drummond Requests Clemency Denial for Wendell Grissom

Thursday, January 23 by Ponca City Now

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested that the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board reject clemency for Wendell Arden Grissom. He is set for execution in March for the murder of Amber Dawn Matthews. On the afternoon of Nov. 3, 2005, Grissom and another man, Jessie Johns, broke into the Blaine County house of... Read More.

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