OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (KOKH) — Attorney General Gentner Drummond has formally requested that the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board deny clemency for convicted murderer Kendrick Simpson, who was sentenced to death for the 2006 drive-by murders of Glen Palmer and Anthony Jones.
In the clemency packet filed Friday, Drummond said that Simpson “has never demonstrated genuine remorse, has repeatedly attempted to evade accountability, and continues to embody the violent behavior that led a jury to impose the death penalty unanimously.”
“Kendrick Simpson hunted his victims, executed them without hesitation, and then boasted about what he had done,” Drummond said. “The families left behind have endured unimaginable pain, and nothing in Simpson’s decades on death row has shown that he deserves the mercy he refused to give to others.”…