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Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, November 5th.

And he has been on death row for 20 years. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection next week.

But his family doesn't want him to die. The victim's family doesn't want him to

die. And now the parole board just a short time ago also said it recommends he not die as well.

Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roads. We follow a lot of these cases as of late,

these death row cases, usually not a whole lot of hope in a clemency hearing, and we usually

know how these things are going to go. Got surprised today. That's right. We listened to this

clemency hearing in Oklahoma City today, and it was

fascinating. It was powerful. And we weren't even sure it was going to go the way it did,

that the board would ultimately, in a split decision, recommend clemency. But it was

really remarkable to hear both sides of this case.

Well, we always think, right? For the most part, they don't get clemency. This close to an

execution? Almost never. Governors aren't granting it. Parole boards aren't saying, okay, so it's

very little hope. So yes, it was shocking to sit up and

hear it go the way it went. And we're talking about, if you don't know the name, you're going to be

hearing it probably for the next week, was now the governor they in Oklahoma has a decision to make.

But Tremaine Wood, 46 years old, wrote convicted. It was New Year's Day, 2002, murder of a 19-year-old by the name of Ronnie

Whiff and Roe. This was a kind of a night of crime, a mini-crime spree with him, his brother, and two women.

That's correct. And Tremaine does not deny being a part of what led up to the death of

Ronnie Whiff. He admits that he was there along with his brother. And as you mentioned,

those two women. Um, but he was the only one sentenced to death out of that group. His

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