Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in the state's first ...

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.

An Oklahoma man has been executed for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 years ago.

Oklahoma is set to execute Grissom by lethal injection for the 2005 murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews. Grissom's attorneys argue that the death penalty should not apply to him because of ...

The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a vigil Thursday morning during death row inmate Wendell Grissom's execution. The vigil started at 9 a.m. in front of the Governor's ...

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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 ...

Weldell Grissom was executed Thursday morning, after being on death row for over 17 years regarding a 2005 break-in shooting incident resulting in the killing of Amber Matthews in Blane County.

Oklahoma executed a man on Thursday for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 years ago. Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State ...

Grissom has been on death row for nearly 17 years for the random killing of 23-year-old Amber Matthews in Blaine County in 2005. Prosecutors of Grissom described this crime as brutal and ...

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 ...

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.