Oklahoma executed Wendell Arden Grissom on Thursday for the murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews in front of her best friend’s two young daughters in 2005. Grissom, 56, was executed by lethal ...

Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025. Grissom and a co-defendant ...

The State of Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025, with death row prisoner Wendell Arden Grissom. Grissom was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. Grissom has been on death row for nearly 17 ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Grissom by lethal injection for the 2005 murder of 23-year-old Amber Matthews. Grissom's attorneys argue that the death penalty should not apply to him because of ...