Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has praised the state’s pardon and parole board for denying clemency to a death row inmate.

Wendell Grissom was convicted in the 2005 murder of Amber Dawn Matthews, while she was protecting her friend’s children during a home invasion near Watonga.

Prosecutors disputed Grissom’s attorneys’ claims that the killing was due to a lack of impulse control as a result of brain ...