Tremane Latron Wood
Summary of Offense:
On January 1, 2002, Ronald Wipf and Arnold Kleinsasser picked up two women who said they were prostitutes, and took them back to their hotel room. In fact, the women were girlfriends of Termane Wood and his brother Zjaiton who were setting Wipf and Kleinsasser up to be robbed. The masked Wood brothers burst into the hotel room and killed Wipf with a stab wound to the chest as he struggled during the robbery. Kleinsasser was hit over the head with a knife, but managed to escape. He testified and identified Termane Wood as the person who had stabbed Wipf. However, Zjaiton testified that he, not Termane, had stabbed Wipf. At the time, Zjaiton was awaiting his own capital murder trial for the Wipf stabbing. The brothers had committed another armed robbery earlier in the evening. In mitigation, the defense presented Termane’s mother, who pleaded for his life.
Wood has been on death row since May 18, 2004.
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