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Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom on Thursday for the murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews in front of her best friend’s two young daughters in 2005.
Wendell Arden Grissom has been described in court records as someone who is “much more than the worst thing he did." He's set for execution on Thursday.
Wendell Arden Grissom has been described in court records as someone who is “much more than the worst thing he did." He's set for execution on Thursday.
Wendell Grissom spoke exclusively to Newsweek from Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, where's he scheduled to die via lethal injection on Thursday.
Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was put to death Thursday, decades after killing a 23-year-old woman and wounding her friend during a home invasion.
Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom on Thursday for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 years ago.
Oklahoma executed a man Thrusday for fatally shooting a woman 20 years ago during a home invasion and robbery. Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma ...
An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery.
Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in the state's first execution of 2025.
Wendell Arden Grissom has been described in court records as someone who is “much more than the worst thing he did." He's set for execution on Thursday.
Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025.