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Oklahoma Set to Execute Death Row Prisoner Wendell Grissom

Thursday, March 20 by News 6

McAlester, Okla. -The State of Oklahoma is set to carry out its first execution of 2025, with death row prisoner Wendell Arden Grissom scheduled to be put to death Thursday morning.MORE: Oklahoma denies clemency for convicted killer, death row inmateGrissom has been on death row for nearly 17 years for the random... Read More.

Oklahoma Set To Execute Kevin Underwood For 2006 Murder Of 10-Year-Old Girl

Tuesday, January 14 by Ponca City Now

MCALESTER, Okla. – The state of Oklahoma is set to execute a man Thursday morning for the 2006 rape, murder, and dismemberment of a 10-year-old Purcell girl. Kevin Underwood, 42, was sentenced to death in 2008 for the brutal killing of his neighbor, Jamie Bolin. Underwood was convicted after he invited Bolin into his apartment, where... Read More.