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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In a mean spirited, social media post, actress and openly gay Ruby Rose points the finger directly at Sydney Sweeney for “ruining” Sweeney’s latest movie “Christy," a biopic about one of the most prominent figures in the history of boxing, Christy Martin. Martin was a closeted lesbian who survived a murder attempt by her husband, but went on to be inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.  Rose said Sweeney “paraded around pretending to be us” insinuating because Sweeney is a Republican and straight, she had no right to play the role of Christy, calling her a “cretin” who ruined the film. The critics and Christy Martin herself say otherwise. 

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Democrats from the House Oversight Committee have just released three of the most damning emails to date surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein saga. They include private emails from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell and journalist Michael Wolff. In them, Epstein not only writes that President Trump “knew about the girls," but also muses why Trump hasn’t “barked” yet. Epstein also conspires with Wolff in an email just before a presidential debate in 2015 about how to leverage what Trump knows, to secure “valuable PR and political currency. The White House has responded, but these emails will require a lot more explanation than a brief statement from Karoline Leavitt. 

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No matter where you stand on the death penalty, this is a powerful and personal conversation with a mother who has already lost one son and is about to lose another after they were both convicted of the 2002 robbery and murder of Ronnie Wipf. It’s a tale of two brothers, an imperfect system and the families devastated by a New Year’s Day murder. Linda Wood’s older son, Jake admitted to the actual murder and received life in prison, her younger son Tremane was convicted of the same crime, but received the death penalty. After the Oklahoma pardons and parole board recommended clemency for Tremane last week, Amy and T.J. recorded an entire episode about the case. Now, as his family waits to see if the Governor will follow the board’s recommendation, his mother and two nieces talk about the torturous past few months and the excruciating hours to come, waiting to find out if the man they describe as the glue of their family will be executed on Thursday.

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The Vail School District in Arizona has been forced to add extra security to protect teachers and students at Cienega High School after they posted a picture to their Facebook page showing a math teachers’ group Halloween costume. It was meant as a math joke, t-shirts that looked like they had blood stains on them with the words “Problem Solved” on the front, but it was interpreted by Charlie Kirk’s own organization, Turning Point USA, as mocking their late founder’s assassination. Even after the district posted an explanation and photographic proof that the teachers had worn the same costume the year before, some conservative activists and prominent national leaders doubled down, posting the teachers’ names, phone numbers and demanding they be fired. The school has had more than 3-thousand hateful messages, including death threats, with the school superintendent asking for better understanding.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs has only been at his new, lower security prison for less than two weeks, and already there have been non-stop headlines surrounding the former rap mogul’s behavior inside the new facility. Among them, Diddy has been admitted to a highly coveted drug rehab program that may get him released from prison a full year ahead of schedule! We’ve also learned what his work assignment is and that Diddy is already facing disciplinary action for an unauthorized phone call. And yes, we address the ongoing rumors that he was caught with “prison moonshine” and tell you what his legal and PR team have to say about it all.

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The House Judiciary committee sent a letter to President Trump today demanding answers about special treatment of Ghislaine Maxwell after receiving what they call “whistleblower” information about Maxwell’s time at FPC Bryant, aka “Club Fed.” The letter accuses Trump of a quid pro quo agreement with Maxwell and urges the president not grant any form of clemency to “an unrepentant sex offender.”

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