A A 66-year-old former Marine was executed Thursday in Florida after spending 46 years in prison. Charged with rape and murder Rebecca ConachA 6-year-old girl was kidnapped from her bedroom in 1979. The special situation of Brian Frederick JenningsOver the nearly half-century he spent on death row, his execution by lethal injection on Thursday contrasted with what happened to another convict in Oklahoma. Tremany Wood Who is the governor of the state? I gave him a last minute deadline: He will serve a life sentence But without the possibility of parole.
Lethal injection of Jennings, who was in the army at the time of Conach’s rape and murder, Who, according to the judges, drowned in the canal after he abused herHe was The 16th execution this year in Florida. The report from the state prison near Stark said Jennings was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. (Local) after receiving a triple-drug injection, and that he loudly answered “no” when asked if he wanted to make any statements before his death.
Meanwhile, in OklahomaAs 45-year-old Treman Wood was set to die in state prison, the phone rang announcing Gov. Kevin Stitt’s pardon. The Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles had recommended changing Wood’s sentence to life in prison in a 3-2 vote in early November, and Stitt, a Republican, finally agreed just minutes before the execution took place.
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“After a thorough review of the facts and careful consideration, I have decided to accept the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Parole to commute my sentence to life imprisonment without parole.”State announced.
Wood had received the death sentence for the crime Ronnie Wipfa 19-year-old young man who was the subject of an attempted robbery that occurred in 2002. In that incident, Tremani’s brother, Jake Wood, received a life sentence at the time, but before committing suicide in prison, Jake admitted that it was he and not his brother who stabbed Wipf to death.
On Friday, a shooting in South Carolina
Meanwhile, this Friday’s US death penalty docket includes a case steven bryant, 44 years old, will face execution by firing squad South Carolina.
At his trial, Bryant admitted to killing three people in 2004, including writing the letter “Catch me if you can” With the blood of one of his victims before he escaped. If he is finally executed on Friday, It will be 42 so far in 2025, the highest number since 2012Where 43 prisoners were executed.
death penalty It has been canceled in 23 of the 50 states in the United Stateswhile three others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – Save EndowmentAlthough it has not been completely cancelled. True to his style, Boss Donald Trump He considers himself a supporter of the death penalty, and on his first day in office he asked for “the scope of its use to be expanded to include the most despicable crimes.”
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