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Termane Wood Oklahoma Death Row

Termane Wood aka Tremane Wood was sentenced to death by the State of Oklahoma for a robbery murder. According to court documents Termane Wood and his brother Zjaiton would get their girlfriends to set up two men who thought they were paying for a prostitute. Shortly after arriving at the hotel Tremane Wood girlfriend would call him and soon after he and his brother would storm the hotel room killing one of the men and injuring the other. Termane Wood would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Termane Wood 2021 Information

Gender: Male

Race: Black

Height: 6 ft 0 in

Weight: 176 lbs

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Alias: T-Locc Wood

Alias: Tremane L. Wood

OK DOC#: 271967

Birth Date: 10/9/1979

Current Facility: OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, MCALE

Reception Date: 5/17/2004

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On New Years Eve 2001, Ronnie Wipf and Arnold Kleinsasser went to the Bricktown Brewery in Oklahoma City where Zjaiton, Tremane, Lanita and Brandy were celebrating. Near closing time, Wipf and Kleinsasser met Lanita and Brandy believing they were two ordinary girls celebrating the new year together. Lanita and Brandy agreed to accompany Wipf and Kleinsasser to a motel on the pretext of continuing to celebrate the new year. Brandy, Lanita, Tremane, and Zjaiton then made a plan whereby the women would pretend to be prostitutes and the brothers Wood would arrive at the motel later and rob Wipf and Kleinsasser.

¶ 4 Once in their room at a Ramada Inn, Lanita made a telephone call to Zjaiton to let him know where they were, ending her conversation by saying, “Mom, I love you” so the victims would not be suspicious. The call to “Mom” was followed by some general conversation among the four which included a discussion of what each did for a living. Lanita told Kleinsasser that “this” is what she did and he realized that she meant she earned her living by having sex with men. That revelation was followed by a negotiation whereby the two women agreed to have sex with Wipf and Kleinsasser for $210.00. Since neither man had that much money, Brandy drove Kleinsasser to a nearby ATM. He gave her the money he withdrew and they returned to the room.

¶ 5 Back at the motel, the women went into the bathroom together, and shortly after, someone pounded on the door and called out, “Brandy, are you in there? Brandy, are you ready to go home?” Wipf refused to open the door and urgently told Kleinsasser to call the police. Before he could reach the phone, Lanita picked it up and pretended to call the police. Since it was now clear that the women were not going to have sex with them, Wipf demanded the return of their money. After a brief period of pandemonium in the room, Wipf opened the door and the women ran out. Recognizing a white car as the one Zjaiton and Tremane were driving, they got in and waited. Meanwhile, two masked men rushed into the motel room, a larger man, subsequently identified as Zjaiton Wood, holding a gun and a smaller man, subsequently identified as Tremane Wood, brandishing a knife.⁶ Zjaiton pointed the gun at Kleinsasser’s head and demanded money. Kleinsasser gave him the rest of the money in his wallet. Zjaiton then joined Tremane in his attack on Wipf. As the three struggled, Kleinsasser heard one of the intruders say, “Just shoot the bastard” and then a gunshot. Tremane then turned his attention to Kleinsasser, demanding more money. Kleinsasser showed him his empty wallet, and Tremane hit him on the head with the knife. Tremane rejoined the struggle with Wipf and the fight moved into the bedroom area. Kleinsasser could see Wipf was bleeding and knew that he was seriously injured. While the two intruders struggled with Wipf, Kleinsasser escaped and sought help from the motel office. Before anyone could unlock the office door and help him, however, Kleinsasser fled to a nearby apartment complex to hide. From his vantage point there, he watched the motel and saw a white car leave the parking lot. He saw people come and go throughout the night, but, with no sense of whom they were, remained in hiding. It was 6:00 a.m. before he returned to the scene of the attack and learned of Wipf’s death from a police detective.

¶ 6 The medical examiner concluded that Wipf died as the result of a stab wound to the chest. There was no evidence he had sustained any kind of gunshot wound. Surveillance videotape from the motel’s camera showed Brandy and Lanita renting the room with Wipf and Kleinsasser. The motel’s phone records showed that three calls were made from the room to Zjaiton’s pager and one to the house where Tremane lived. Surveillance videotape from a local Wal-Mart showed Brandy, Lanita, Zjaiton, and Tremane buying ski masks and gloves earlier in the evening.⁷ As part of her plea bargain, Brandy testified against Tremane detailing the events of the evening from buying the masks and gloves through their actions the morning after the murder.

¶ 7 Zjaiton testified for the defense, against the advice of counsel. He said that it was he who stabbed Wipf, aided in the crime by a man named Alex. Zjaiton claimed that he took the knife from Alex and stabbed Wipf with it. He testified that Tremane was not involved in the crime.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ok-court-of-criminal-appeals/1417542.html

Kevin Underwood Oklahoma Death Row

Kevin Underwood was sentenced to death by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of a ten year old girl. According to court documents Kevin Underwood would abduct ten year old Jamie Rose Bolin who would later be beaten to death with a cutting board. Kevin Underwood would attempt to decapitate the girl and stuck her body in a storage container which he placed in his closet. Kevin Underwood would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Kevin Underwood 2021 Information

Gender: Male

Race: White

Height: 5 ft 11 in

Weight: 275 lbs

Hair Color: Red

Eye Color: Brown

Alias: Kevin Underwood

OK DOC#: 576482

Birth Date: 12/19/1979

Current Facility: OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, MCALE

Reception Date: 4/7/2008

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A judge on Thursday took a jury’s recommendation and sentenced a former grocery store stocker to death by injection for killing a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy.

McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock approved the death sentence for Kevin Ray Underwood in the killing of the man’s neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin. Underwood, 28, showed no emotion when judge handed down the sentence.

Underwood’s attorney, Matthew Haire, said he planned to appeal the sentence. Underwood was convicted last month of first-degree murder.

Linda Chiles, the slain girl’s aunt, said the family is prepared for a long appeals process.

“We know that’s going to happen, but this does create a lot of closure for us, that we don’t have to come back for trial and don’t have to sit in the courtroom with him,” Chiles said.

The pain of Jamie’s loss is still profound, Chiles said, especially with the second anniversary of her death just days away.

“I think about her all the time, and I’m sure everybody else does,” Chiles said. “We all talk about her and joke about the cute things she used to do.”

Prosecutor Greg Mashburn expressed relief that evidence presented at trial, including crime scene photographs and seized items including sex toys and weapons, can now be moved from his office.

“I don’t have to stare at that disgusting stuff that jurors had to look at,” Mashburn said. “It was a particularly troubling case to sit through.”

During his trial, prosecutors played a videotaped confession in which Underwood told investigators he lured the girl into his apartment April 12, 2006, in Purcell, a small town about 35 miles south of Oklahoma City. He beat her over the head with a cutting board, suffocated her, sexually assaulted her and then tried to cut off her head with a decorative dagger.

Underwood told authorities he was fueled by sexual fantasies that involved torturing, raping, killing and eating his victim, although no evidence was presented that he cannibalized the girl’s body.

Underwood’s attorneys did not dispute that he killed the girl, and it took the jury less than an hour to convict him. His attorneys had argued, though, that his life should be spared because he suffered from mental illness that could be helped with medication.

Defense attorneys also said Underwood was bullied as a child and was emotionally and verbally abused by his parents.

Jamie lived with her father in an apartment upstairs from Underwood, and her disappearance prompted a statewide search. Underwood raised the suspicions of officers at a police checkpoint and he let them search his apartment, where they discovered the child’s nude body stuffed inside a plastic tub in his bedroom closet.

https://www.kswo.com/story/8117143/okla-man-gets-death-for-mutilation/

Bigler Stouffer Oklahoma Death Row

Bigler Stouffer was sentenced to death by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of a school teacher. According to court documents Bigler Stouffer would go over to Doug Ivens home and asked to borrow a gun and then would use that gun to shoot and kill Linda Reaves and wounded Doug Ivens. Bigler Stouffer would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Bigler Stouffer 2021 Information

Gender: Male

Race: White

Height: 5 ft 11 in

Weight: 220 lbs

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

Alias: Bigler Stouffer

OK DOC#: 146930

Birth Date: 9/25/1942

Current Facility: OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, MCALE

Reception Date: 3/10/2003

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Doug Ivens and Velva Ivens (now Pardee) were separated and pursuing divorce proceedings. B.J. (Bud) Stouffer was dating Velva. Doug Ivens was dating Linda Reaves.

¶ 4 Doug Ivens testified that on January 24, 1985, Stouffer came to his house asking for a pistol. Stouffer told him that he needed a gun because there were prowlers or a burglar at Velva Ivens’s house. Doug Ivens was concerned for the safety of his estranged wife and his two eight-year-old daughters.

¶ 5 Doug Ivens went to his bedroom and came out with a bank bag containing a loaded Colt .357 caliber revolver. Doug gave the bank bag to Stouffer. Stouffer turned his back to Doug Ivens, and then he turned around with the pistol in his hand. Stouffer fired two shots at Ivens, and Ivens fell to the floor. Stouffer then went to where Linda Reaves was reclining on the couch and shot her twice in the head. Stouffer walked back to Ivens and fired another shot into Ivens’s face. Stouffer then left.

¶ 6 Ivens was able to crawl to the phone and call the police. He told police that Bud Stouffer had shot him and Linda Reaves. Reaves died as a result of her gunshot wounds, but Doug Ivens survived.

¶ 7 The State’s experts concluded that five shots were fired. Five spent rounds and one live round were found in the Colt Python revolver.

¶ 8 The defense experts testified that there was not enough information to conclude that only five shots were fired. They concluded that more shots could have been fired. These experts pointed out that it was impossible to match all of the slugs to the Colt Python. The shots could have been fired from any .357 caliber weapon (including a .38 revolver or a 9 millimeter pistol). All of the defense experts believed that the crime scene was insufficiently processed, possibly because the police focused only on the description of events relayed by Ivens.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ok-court-of-criminal-appeals/1030706.html

Bigler Stouffer Execution

Oklahoma executed inmate Bigler Jobe “Bud” Stouffer II Thursday without the issues that caused the last three lethal injections to be described as botched.

The convicted murderer was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. It was the state’s second execution in a month and a half after the practice was halted for more than six years.

“No vomiting, no erratic movements or anything like that. Just, you could see his chest moving as he appeared to breathe. That’s about it,” said one media witness, Sean Murphy of The Associated Press.

The execution process began at 10:01 a m., Corrections Department Director Scott Crow told reporters. Stouffer was declared unconscious at 10:06 a.m.

For his last words, Stouffer said, “My request is that my Father forgive them. Thank you,” media witnesses reported.

In a policy change, Stouffer was allowed to have his personal spiritual advisor, Baptist minister Howard Potts, in the execution chamber with him.

Potts put a hand on Stouffer’s foot and read from a Bible, witnesses said. Early in the process, the advisor said something that made Stouffer laugh.

At 79, Stouffer is the oldest inmate in Oklahoma history to be executed.

He is the second oldest inmate to be executed in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

He was put to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of Putnam City elementary school teacher Linda Reaves in 1985.

He maintained to the end he was wrongfully convicted.

Media witness Dylan Goforth said Stouffer talked in an interview Wednesday about being at peace and ready to go.

“He felt like if he couldn’t prove his innocence while alive then his attorneys would prove it after he was gone,” said Goforth, who works for The Frontier.

Three more executions are set for next year.

As many as 26 more could be scheduled next year if death row inmates lose a legal challenge to the lethal injection process at a trial in Oklahoma City federal court. The trial is set to begin Feb. 28.

Stouffer filed his own legal challenge after his execution was set. He sought to have his execution delayed until after the trial but was turned down in court three times.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied his last request for a stay about 8 a.m. Thursday.

His attorneys also had sought clemency for him. Gov. Kevin Stitt last week rejected a recommendation to commute his sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Stouffer spent more than three decades on death row because he was tried twice.

He was first convicted in 1985. He was granted a retrial in 2000 when a federal appeals court agreed his defense attorneys had been inept. He was convicted again in 2003 but did not exhaust his appeals of that conviction until 2017.

Prosecutors alleged he intended to kill both Reaves and her boyfriend, Doug Ivens, and staged the crime scene to look like a murder-suicide.

He planted the gun in Reaves’ hand after shooting them both, prosecutors alleged.

Ivens was in the middle of a divorce, and Stouffer was dating his estranged wife.

Ivens survived the attack at his Oklahoma City home and identified Stouffer as the shooter. Prosecutors alleged the motive was a $2 million life insurance policy.

Stouffer also later told his girlfriend in a phone call that he was afraid she would go back to her husband and that he just went berserk, according to testimony.

Stouffer claimed Reaves already was dead when he arrived at the house. He suggested she was murdered because she was going to be a witness in an embezzlement case.

He said at his clemency hearing that Ivens lured him to the “crime scene” and he defended himself because Ivens had a gun. He said Ivens was shot during their struggle.

Jurors at the second trial heard testimony that Stouffer from death row hired hit men to kill Ivens and two others. He denied involvement, saying he was being set up again to keep him in prison.

After the execution, the family of the murder victim thanked the governor and Attorney General John O’Connor for their willingness to carry justice through.

“Although long in coming, justice has prevailed,” a cousin, Rodney C. Thomson, told reporters at the penitentiary.

The cousin recalled how Ivens before his death placed a Christmas tree every year on Reaves’ grave.

Stouffer did not request a traditional “last meal.” He was served a regular evening meal Wednesday that included a chicken patty, bread, fries, broccoli, mixed fruit and two cookies, the Corrections Department said.

His spiritual advisor told the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board in November that Stouffer turned his incarceration into a spiritual ministry and regularly shared his faith with other death row inmates.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/12/09/bigler-stouffer-execution-crime-oklahoma/6432756001/

Michael Smith Oklahoma Death Row

Michael Smith was sentenced to death by the State of Oklahoma for two murders. According to court documents Michael Smith would shoot and kill Janet Moore who was the mother of a man that Smith believed was a snitch. Michael Smith would then rob a store and would shoot and kill Sarath “Babu” Pullur then took money from the cash register before setting the store on fire. Michael Smith would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Michael Smith Was Executed On April 4 2024

Michael Smith 2021 Information

Gender: Male

Race: Black

Height: 5 ft 10 in

Weight: 189 lbs

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Alias: Killa Hoover

Alias: H K. Smith

Alias: Locster Smith

Alias: Lonnell D. Smith

OK DOC#: 457856

Birth Date: 6/24/1982

Current Facility: OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, MCALE

Reception Date: 10/20/2003

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Petitioner Michael DeWayne Smith is a member of the Oak Grove Posse (OGP), a subset of the Crips gang that operates in Oklahoma City. In November 2000, Teron “T-Nok” Armstrong and two other members of the OGP attempted to rob Tran’s Food Mart in south Oklahoma City. The store owner shot and killed Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Smith was not involved in the robbery but had “close personal ties” to Mr. Armstrong. Smith v. State (Smith I), 157 P.3d 1155, 1161 (Okla. Crim. App. 2007).

The other two would-be robbers were later arrested and were set to be tried for the robbery in February 2002. Two days before the trial, Mr. Smith, armed with a .357 revolver, went to the apartment of Janet Moore. Believing Ms. Moore’s son was a police informant, Mr. Smith kicked in her door and confronted her. When she began to scream, Mr. Smith shot her to death. Before leaving, Mr. Smith wiped down the apartment to eliminate any fingerprint evidence.

Mr. Smith next went to the A-Z Mart, a convenience store “immediately next door” to Tran’s Food Mart—the site of the earlier failed robbery attempt. Id. at 1161. Mr. Smith “emptied two pistols into” the clerk on duty, Sarath Pulluru, took money from the register, and then used lighter fluid to set fires around the store. Id. He set fire to Mr. Pulluru’s body and “whatever he had touched in the A-Z Mart to destroy evidence.” Id. at 1162. Afterward he disposed of the clothes he had worn during the murders.

Mr. Smith returned home early the next morning and reported to his roommate that he had killed Janet Moore, had “done something else to ‘take care of business,’ ” and had “avenged his family.” Id. at 1161. A couple of hours later, Mr. Smith went to the home of Sheena Johnson. He told her that he had killed Ms. Moore because her son had been “snitching” and that he had “killed a person at a ‘chink’ store” because someone connected to the A-Z Mart “had been on television ‘dissing’ his set” in response to the earlier attempted robbery. Id. Ms. Johnson later reported this conversation to police, who had already taken Mr. Smith into custody on a different matter.

Three days after Mr. Smith was arrested, detectives interviewed him about the killings. He signed a written waiver of his Miranda rights ³ and agreed to talk to the detectives. After initially denying his involvement, Mr. Smith admitted to both murders, explaining that he “killed both victims in retaliation for wrongs done him or his family.” Id. He explained that he went to Ms. Moore’s apartment looking for her son but ended up killing her when she “panicked and started screaming.” Id. And he stated that he killed Mr. Pulluru “in retaliation against the store owner who shot Armstrong and in retaliation for disrespectful comments about Armstrong in the press attributed to someone from the A-Z Mart.” Id. He further admitted that he had disposed of the clothes he wore during the murders, wiped down Ms. Moore’s apartment to eliminate fingerprints, and set fires in the A-Z Mart to destroy evidence. Mr. Smith’s confession was videotaped.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-10th-circuit/1738129.html

Kendrick Simpson Oklahoma Death Row

Kendrick Simpson was sentenced to death by the State of Oklahoma for the murders of two men. According to court documents Kendrick Simpson during a drive by shooting would open fire killing the two victims and injuring the third. Kendrick Simpson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Kendrick Simpson 2021 Information

Gender: Male

Race: Black

Height: 5 ft 9 in

Weight: 161 lbs

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Alias: Kendrick Simpson

OK DOC#: 568612

Birth Date: 10/2/1980

Current Facility: OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, MCALE

Reception Date: 11/5/2007

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Kendrick Simpson seemed resigned to his fate before he even heard the jury’s verdict.

The former New Orleans resident only grimaced slightly when his death sentence was announced Thursday in Oklahoma County District Court.

Simpson, 27, had wiped tears from his eyes two days earlier when he was convicted of killing two men and trying to kill a third in a Jan. 16, 2006, drive-by shooting.

Defense attorney Bill Campbell asked the jury to spare Simpson, who was forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, but the seven-man, five-woman jury needed less than two hours to decide the death penalty was the appropriate punishment for his crimes.

Prosecutors had argued Simpson deserved to die because he has shown no remorse for the murders of Glen Palmer, 20, and Anthony Jones, 19.

“It doesn’t bring the victims back, but it is justice,” Assistant District Attorney Steve Deutsch said Thursday in his closing argument. “Any sentence of less than death diminishes what he’s done.”Witnesses made plea dealsSimpson’s attorney contended he was the son of a single teen mother who turned to the streets when he didn’t get enough guidance from his family.

“He was a good child trying to make his way on his own,” Campbell said. “That’s not a good thing.”

He acknowledged the fatal drive-by shooting shouldn’t have happened, but he urged jurors not to sentence Simpson to death.

“There’s no point in destroying another family,” Campbell said. “There’s no reason to kill him.”

Simpson was convicted of firing as many as 25 shots from a military-style assault rifle at three men after a confrontation at an Oklahoma City night club.

The two men who were in the car with Simpson during the drive-by shooting pleaded guilty in April to being accessories to the murders. Former New Orleans residents Jonathan Dwight Dalton and Latango Wayne Robertson testified against Simpson during the nine-day trial. Both are serving 20-year prison terms.Death penaltyJurors were able to impose the death penalty against Kendrick Simpson because they concluded prosecutors proved four aggravating factors in the case:

•Simpson had a prior conviction for a violent crime.

•Simpson’s actions threatened more than one person.

•His crime was heinous, atrocious or cruel.

•Simpson poses a continuing threat to the community.

https://www.oklahoman.com/article/3140699/man-sentenced-to-die-for-drive-by-killings