Jan 22, 2025 · A woman who's been on Oklahoma's death row for two decades could get another shot at defending herself after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that she may not have received a fair trial because of sex-shaming by prosecutors.. Brenda Evers Andrew, 61, was convicted of first-degree murder for the shooting death of her estranged husband, Rob Andrew.She has been …

Apr 2, 2024 · Brenda Andrew, 60, is the only woman on Oklahoma's death row. If she is executed, she will be the fourth woman executed by the state of Oklahoma since 1976, when the state reinstated the death penalty using lethal injection.

Jan 21, 2025 · Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row in Oklahoma, is facing execution for the 2001 shooting death of her estranged husband. In her appeal to the high court, Andrew said the prosecution’s ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Brenda Andrew, Oklahoma’s only woman on death row, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming her trial was unfair. She argued that prosecutors presented irrelevant evidence about her personal ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The United States Supreme Court released a rare ruling Tuesday in favor of Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew. Her attorney has claimed she did not receive a fair trial in 2004 for the murder ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The case of Oklahoma's only woman on death row received new attention on Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court. Brenda Andrew, who was convicted for conspiring to kill her estranged husband in 2001, has spent the last two decades appealing that conviction based on what she calls prejudicial evidence.

Jan 21, 2025 · An Oklahoma jury convicted Brenda Andrew of murdering her husband, Rob Andrew, and sentenced her to death. The State spent significant time at trial introducing evidence about Andrew’s sex life and about her failings as a mother and wife, much of which it later conceded was irrelevant. In a federal habeas petition, Andrew argued that this ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Andrew has been on death row since 2004 after she was convicted of killing her estranged husband Rob Andrew in their Oklahoma City home in 2001 to collect his life insurance policy. James Pavatt, who was allegedly having an affair with Brenda Andrew, was separately convicted in the murder. He was sentenced to death in 2003.

Mar 23, 2023 · the 10th u.s. circuit court of appeals upheld the decision to execute brenda andrew, a former sunday school teacher in oklahoma city, convicted of working with her lover, james pivot to plot and kill her estranged husband, rob …

Mar 22, 2023 · Death row inmate Brenda Andrew moved a step closer to execution Tuesday when a federal appeals court upheld her murder conviction despite misgivings about "sexual" evidence admitted at her 2004 trial. Andrew, now 59, was convicted in the fatal shooting of her estranged husband at their Oklahoma City home in 2001.