By AP
Tulsa, OK – Okla. AG requests execution date for Tulsa convict
TULSA, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is asking a state appeals court to set an execution date for a man convicted of killing his wife in Tulsa County in 1996.
Pruitt on Monday requested the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date for 46-year-old Timothy Shaun Stemple after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal.
Stemple was convicted and sentenced to die for the killing of 30-year-old Trisha Stemple along a Tulsa highway.
Prosecutors say Stemple planned to collect $950,000 in insurance money after beating his wife with a baseball bat and driving over her with a pickup with the help of a teenage accomplice. Stemple maintained his innocence.
Pruitt asked the court to set the execution within the next 60 days.