Sep 25, 2019 · Eerily echoing plots from film noir classics such as "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," disenchanted wife Brenda Andrew and her lover murdered her husband in an attempt to collect on his life insurance policy.

Apr 2, 2024 · Brenda Andrew, 60, is the only woman on Oklahoma's death row. If she is executed, she will be the fourth woman executed by the state of Oklahoma since 1976, when the state reinstated the death penalty using lethal injection.

Jan 22, 2025 · Brenda Evers Andrew, 61, was convicted of first-degree murder for the shooting death of her estranged husband, Rob Andrew. She has been on death row since 2004 but has maintained her innocence on the charges.

Jan 21, 2025 · Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row in Oklahoma, is facing execution for the 2001 shooting death of her estranged husband. In her appeal to the high court, Andrew said the prosecution’s...

Jan 21, 2025 · Brenda Andrew (Andrew) married Robert Andrew (Rob) in 1984. In February 2000, Rob purchased an $800,000 life insurance policy through agent Jim Pavatt, with Andrew as the beneficiary. The Andrews and Pavatt attended the same church. Pavatt and Andrew both served as Sunday school teachers. But, by August 2001, they had begun an affair.

An Oklahoma jury convicted Brenda Andrew of murder-ing her husband, Rob Andrew, and sentenced her to death. The State spent significant time at trial introducing evi-dence about Andrew’s sex life and about her failings as a mother and wife, much of which it later conceded was irrel-evant. In a federal habeas petition, Andrew argued that

Jan 21, 2025 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma's death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a fair trial for murdering her husband after prosecutors used salacious details of her sexual history to convict her.

Jan 23, 2025 · The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave Brenda Evers Andrew another chance to challenge her death sentence and conviction for the murder of her estranged husband. Andrew, who was sentenced to death in 2004, has long maintained that she is innocent, and her boyfriend James Pavatt, who confessed to the kill

Jan 21, 2025 · Defendant Brenda Andrew is led into the courtroom in Oklahoma City, Monday, July 12, 2004, following a break in the closing arguments of her murder trial. Brenda Andrew was charged with first ...

Mar 23, 2023 · the 10th u.s. circuit court of appeals upheld the decision to execute brenda andrew, a former sunday school teacher in oklahoma city, convicted of working with her lover, james pivot to plot and kill her estranged husband, rob …