Wendell Grissom was convicted in the 2005 murder of Amber Dawn Matthews, while she was protecting her friend’s children during a home invasion near Watonga.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has praised the state’s pardon and parole board for denying clemency to a death row inmate.
A death penalty date for Wendell Grissom will stand after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied him clemency on Wednesday morning.