MOMENTS Before Tremane Wood’s Execution, Oklahoma’s Governor Grants Clemency!

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It was an exceptionally rare day in Oklahoma today. With just minutes to spare before Tremane Wood’s scheduled execution, Republican governor Kevin Stitt made the unusual move to accept the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation and commuted Wood’s death sentence to life without parole. Amy and T.J. have been following this case since the Parole Board made its decision, and after speaking with Wood’s family earlier in the week, share their thoughts on this decision that had nothing to do with guilt or innocence, but had everything to do with the fairness of our justice system and the wishes of the victim’s family.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:06.2	Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, November 13th, and it's just a little while ago, actually.
0:12.5	A man was sitting in a room next to a death chamber waiting to be taken in and executed.
0:20.1	He had been served his last meal, and he was minutes away from going into that death chamber
0:24.7	when he got word that his life was being spared by the governor of Oklahoma.
0:31.3	And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.
0:33.9	Robs, we can't believe almost that this happened. These are so rare, and this is a case for
0:42.9	whatever reason we got very close to and interested in. Lo and behold, today a man's life was spared.
0:49.1	And within minutes, it was as dramatic as it gets, and yes, we spoke with Tremaine Woods family just two days ago.
0:59.1	They could barely speak about his potential impending death without sobbing, understandably.
1:05.2	We were on the edge of our seats waiting to see if the governor of Oklahoma was going to go ahead and grant the clemency
1:13.3	that a pardon and parole board had recommended the week before. And tick, talk, tick, talk. We were
1:21.5	all the way up to 10, at the East Coast time, 1057, 1058. He was scheduled to die by lethal injection at
1:31.4	11 a.m. Eastern time, 10 a.m. local time. And just before it hit 11 here, we got word.
1:39.9	And we talked about this, Robert, I was saying to you, I mean, these are so rare that it does happen that the governor grants clemency. And I said, you know, the ones we've heard about oftentimes, it's not like we see in the movies. Like they're somebody strapped to the chair and the phone rings on the wall. That's not usually how it goes down, but it can't. It went down like that to a great degree today. Now, Tremaine Wood was sitting waiting to be
2:03.1	executed. They had moved him to this holding cell essentially right next door to the death
2:08.1	chamber. And that's where he had been. It was one of your first questions, robed, when it had gotten
2:12.0	so close to the hour, the execution hour. You were like, good God, was he strapped to that gurney? Was he
2:20.5	ready to be? Was he in there? And then the call came? That's not the case. I can't imagine how
2:26.5	dramatic and what that would have felt like. But still, what he went through today, can you imagine
2:31.0	what that felt like? It had to be pretty close to that short of being
2:35.2	strapped to the gurney. He was in what they called Death Watch and he'd been in Death Watch for a
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