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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 inmate Grissom has been on death row for nearly 17 years for the random... 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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Oklahoma Set to Execute Death Row Prisoner Wendell Grissom

Drummond Requests Clemency Denial for Wendell Grissom

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