The Oklahoma Pardon Parole Board has its full contingent of five members.
Gov. Kevin Stitt late Tuesday announced the appointment of M. Sean Malloy to the five-member panel.
“Sean has served his state in multiple capacities in the public and private sectors,” Stitt said. “His dedication to service and his commitment to integrity have prepared him well to serve in this important role.”
Malloy has served in a variety of legal roles, including assistant district attorney for Tulsa County and El Paso County, Colorado, as well as Oklahoma assistant attorney general.
Malloy earned a law degree, MBA and bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma.
Stitt has three appointees, while the Court of Criminal Appeals and Oklahoma Supreme Court each have one.
Earlier this month, Stitt announced the appointment of Tulsa attorney Susan H. Stava to the board.
Until her appointment, the board only had three members because two had resigned.
Child killer Kevin Ray Underwood waged an unsuccessful legal battle to have a full panel hear his clemency request.
Three members on Friday voted against recommending clemency to Stitt.
Underwood is set to die Thursday by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
He received the death penalty for the 2006 suffocation death of Jamie Rose Bolin, 10, his Purcell neighbor.
Her partially decapitated body was found in a plastic tub in his apartment. He confessed to wanting to killer her, rape her and cannibalize the body.
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