Tremane Wood, 46, has denied stabbing a man to death during a botched robbery on New Year’s Day 2002.
A death row inmate just moments away from execution has had his life spared after a last-minute reprieve.
Tremane Wood, 46, was condemned to die for stabbing a man to death during a botched robbery on New Year’s Day 2002.
Wood, who has always denied the killing, was set to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10am local time on Thursday (4pm UK time).
But Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board that he be spared, commuting his sentence to life in prison without parole.
The inmate admitted he took part in the robbery but has insisted it was his brother, Zjaiton Wood, who killed Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old migrant farmworker from Montana, at a north Oklahoma City hotel.
