Article 71EZ4 Oklahoma inmate's life spared minutes before scheduled execution –video

Oklahoma inmate's life spared minutes before scheduled execution –video

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Guardian reporter Hilary Andersson reports from the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester where Tremane Wood, 46, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Wednesday. In an extraordinary turn of events, Kevin Stitt, the state's Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board's recommendation that Wood's sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. Wood was convicted of felony murder in the stabbing death of Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old migrant farm worker from Montana, during a botched robbery in 2002

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