In Oklahoma, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, it is exceedingly rare for a person on death row to receive clemency. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, just six people in the state have had their death sentences commuted. The last two, Julius Jones in 2021 and Tremane Wood last month, were represented by the same legal team: federal public defender Amanda Bass Castro Alves and investigators Lamont Williams and Rebecca Postyeni, from the Arizona Federal Defender’s Capital Habeas Unit.
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