Overview

• Wendell Grissom, 56, was executed by lethal injection for the 2005 murder of Amber Matthews during a random home-invasion robbery in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
• Grissom and co-defendant Jessie Floyd Johns also shot and wounded Dreu Kopf, who managed to escape and seek help; Johns received a life sentence without parole.
• Grissom's attorneys argued during a clemency hearing that he suffered from brain damage and had shown remorse, but the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied his request.
• Dreu Kopf continues to experience lasting physical and emotional trauma from the attack, including bullet fragments in her body and persistent fear.
• Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond described the case as a 'textbook' example for the death penalty, citing the random and brutal nature of the crime.