"This action reflects the same punishment his brother received for their murder of an innocent young man and ensures a severe punishment that keeps a violent offender off the streets forever."
"I'm not a monster. I'm not a killer,"
"I never was, and I never have been."
Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt accepted the pardon and parole board's recommendation to commute Tremane Wood's death sentence to life without parole minutes before a scheduled execution. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier denied a request from Wood's attorneys to stop the execution. Wood was convicted of felony murder in the 2002 stabbing death of 19-year-old migrant farm worker Ronnie Wipf during a botched robbery. Wood's attorneys acknowledge his participation in the robbery but contend his brother, Zjaiton (Jake) Wood, committed the stabbing. Zjaiton had been sentenced to life without parole and died in prison in 2019 after admitting to several people that he killed Wipf.
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