News Release
01/20/2012
Stemple Execution Date Set for March
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Court of Criminal Appeals today set March 15, 2012, as the execution date for Tulsa County death row inmate Timothy Shaun Stemple, 46.
Stemple was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, Trisha J. Stemple, 30, on Oct. 24, 1996, along a highway. Evidence showed the victim had been hit multiple times with a baseball bat and repeatedly run over with Stemple’s pickup. The victim died from blunt force trauma to the head and also had fractures to her arm, ribs, pelvis, vertebrae and skull.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt requested the execution date on Jan. 9, after the United States Supreme Court denied the inmate’s final appeal.
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