Overview
- Wood’s punishment is now life without parole under an order that also bars any future applications for commutation, pardon or parole.
- The Oklahoma and U.S. Supreme Courts denied last‑minute requests to halt the execution before the governor intervened.
- Attorney General Gentner Drummond voiced disappointment and said his office will work to ensure Wood remains incarcerated, citing alleged prison misconduct.
- Members of the victim’s family and the surviving victim supported clemency, while Wood’s attorneys pointed to his late brother’s reported confession to the stabbing.
- Hours after the commutation, officials said Wood was found unresponsive and later stabilized, attributing the medical episode to dehydration and stress.