Tremane Wood is on death row in Oklahoma for the 2004 murder of Ronnie Wipf.

Tremane, who is African American, was condemned to die by a nearly all-white jury for the murder of a young white man he did not commit and which his co-defendant confessed to carrying out. Whereas Mr. Wood’s co-defendant received a life-without-parole sentence for that murder, Mr. Wood is one of several people on Oklahoma’s death row sentenced to death for felony murder following a brief 6-day trial tainted by racial prejudice, ineffective contract defense counsel and prosecutorial misconduct.

Click here for the official web page for Tremane Wood.

The 2017 bipartisan Report of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission identified systemic failures like those present in Mr. Wood’s case as creating an unacceptable risk that the State of Oklahoma will execute individuals whose actions and whose lessened culpability do not place them among the worst offenders for whom capital punishment is supposed to be reserved. If Oklahoma executes Mr. Wood, that risk will become a reality.

Oklahoma's aggressive execution schedule marks it as an outlier in its use of the death penalty while the majority of other states are on a downward trend of executions. In the last few years, Oklahoma has been one of only a handful of states that have carried out death sentences - and it continues to do so targeting the poor, the mentally ill and people of color.

This particular execution is just one in a series of 25 executions scheduled by Oklahoma in the coming months, despite serious concerns around the state's lethal injection protocols and drugs.

Please sign the petition asking Governor Stitt and the Pardon and Parole Board to do everything within their power to ensure this execution does not go forward, and to seek a path to clemency in the case.