Oklahoma Governor Commutes Execution After Justices Decline Case

Oklahoma’s Republican governor granted a reprieve to a death row inmate after the US Supreme Court declined to hear his case and just minutes before he was set to be executed.

Tremane Wood, 46, petitioned the court in October. The justices declined Thursday to hear his appeal, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson saying she would’ve granted a stay.

Roughly an hour after the Supreme Court published its denial, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office announced he had accepted a recommendation by the state parole board to commute Wood’s sentence to life without parole.

“This action reflects the same punishment his brother ...