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 ...

A man with a complicated life since the day he was born, Wendell Arden Grissom is “much more than the worst thing he did," Grissom's attorneys say. Grissom's attorneys describe him as severely ...

Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at about 10:13 a.m. after receiving a three-chemical cocktail via lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, where several ...

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 ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond described this as a “textbook” death penalty case. Wendell Grissom was found guilty in 2005 and sentenced to death for shooting and killing 23-year-old Amber ...

The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a vigil Thursday morning during death row inmate Wendell Grissom's execution. The vigil started at 9 a.m. in front of the ...

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. “It took him a total of 13 ...

Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, shot his way into Dreu Kopf's home in Watong on November 3, 2005 and fatally shot her best friend, Amber Matthews, 23, as she tried to shield Kopf's two young daughters.

Update: The State of Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom on Thursday, March 20, 2025. BLAINE COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – For the past 20 years, an Oklahoma mother and her two daughters have been ...

RESPONSE FROM SURVIVORS. THAT’S RIGHT. CONVICTED MURDERER AND DEATH ROW INMATE WENDELL GRISSOM EXPECTED TO BE EXECUTED THIS MORNING IN MCALESTER BY LETHAL INJECTION. THAT’S HAPPENING AT 10:00 ...