The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma's death row over concerns that prosecutors' discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial ...
Brenda Andrew and her boyfriend, James Pavatt, were convicted of the 2001 murder of her husband, Rob Andrew AP Photo/The Oklahoman, David McDaniel The only woman on death row in Oklahoma could get ...
Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her trial, per a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling.
The thong, prosecutors say, was recovered from her luggage. Andrew’s co-defendant, James Pavatt, confessed to Robert Andrew’s murder. He is also on death row. But despite the confession, police ...
Shamed Onto Death Row
When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...
After over two decades of imprisonment for killing her husband, Brenda Andrew's team now argue prosecutors used sexist tactics to influence the jury.
At Andrew’s trial, the prosecution sought to prove that Andrew had conspired with James Pavatt, an insurance agent ... the Nov. 2001 and was sentenced to death. The 29-page Supreme Court ...
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 of ...
She has been on death row since 2004 but has maintained her innocence on the charges. Her alleged accomplice in the crime, 71-year-old James Pavatt, is also facing execution. On Nov. 20 ...
Brenda Andrew, Oklahoma’s only woman on death row, has been granted a lifeline ... Prosecutors alleged that Brenda Andrew and her boyfriend, James Pavatt, plotted the murder to collect on ...
James Pavatt, whom she had begun seeing after her estrangement from Rob. But on Tuesday, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, threw a lifeline to the death row resident. The justices stated that a ...
Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was ... along with her lover and fellow Sunday school teacher, James Pavatt. Pavatt, who had sold Rob Andrew an $800,000 life ...