Oklahoma executed Wendell Arden Grissom on Thursday for the murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews in front of her best friend’s two young daughters in 2005. Grissom, 56, was executed by lethal ...

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Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. "I consider this a mercy. It's going to be all right," he said in his last words after apologizing ...

The State of Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025, with death row prisoner Wendell Arden Grissom. Grissom was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. Grissom has been on death row for nearly 17 ...