Brenda Andrew, 62, was found guilty of capital murder for having her husband Robert killed 25 years ago 

Weeks before Robert Andrew, 31, was shot dead in the garage of his Oklahoma City home in Nov. 2001, he’d reported that his estranged wife and her lover were plotting his death for a hefty insurance claim 

Brenda’s accomplice and lover James Pavatt, 72, who confessed to shooting Rob more than a year after he sold him an $800,000 life insurance policy, is also sitting on death row

The Oklahoma County District Court in 2004, convicted Brenda for the murder and sentenced her to death

Brenda, a mother-of-two and Sunday school teacher has long fought her conviction, arguing that she was unfairly depicted as a sexual deviant and unfit mother

In 2025, the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling agreed that she’d been unfairly sexualized, ordering a fresh trial

On Tuesday the appeal court unanimously upheld the ruling of the lower court of 2004, meaning her sentence could now be implemented

21 years after going on death row, Brenda Andrew, [right], 62, appears to have run out of appeals after losing a fresh trial. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling last year that she was entitled to fresh trial. In 2004 she’d been after she was convicted of masterminding the 2001 murder of her husband Robert [left]

A mother-of-two and former Oklahoma City Sunday school teacher who was put on death row 21 years ago, following her conviction for the murder had her husband murdered three years earlier, is set to be executed.
She has just lost an appeal at the Oklahoma 16th District Court of Appeal, which unanimously upheld the verdict that she was responsible for the 2001 murder.
Brenda Andrew, 62, in 2004, was found guilty of capital murder after having her husband Robert Andrew, killed by her lover in November 2001 so the pair could be together. 
Robert a 31-year-old advertising executive in Oklahoma City was gunned down in his garage on November 20, 2001. He was estranged from his wife Brenda who was 38 at the time.
The Oklahoma County District Court ruled that she was responsible for the murder in 2004, but she has long fought her conviction, arguing that she was unfairly depicted as a sexual deviant and unfit mother.
In 2004, her accomplice and lover James Pavatt, 72, confessed to shooting Rob more than a year after he sold him an $800,000 life insurance policy. He was also sentenced to death.
An inmate who was locked up at the Oklahoma County Detention Center with Brenda claimed that she admitted to the crime.

Brenda Andrew who fled to Mexico after the murder was arrested [right], at the border when she returned in February 2002. She was convicted for murder and sentenced to death [left], in July 2004

However, in 2005, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling on her appeal said she should get a new trial.
A 7-2 Supreme Court ruling in Brenda’s favor determined that she was sex-shamed during her trial.
The apex court ordered an appeals court to reconsider the decision.
The court wrote: ‘The State spent significant time at trial introducing evidence about Andrew’s sex life and about her failings as a mother and wife, much of which it later conceded was irrelevant.
‘Among other things, the prosecution elicited testimony about Andrew’s sexual partners reaching back two decades; about the outfits she wore to dinner or during grocery runs; about the underwear she packed for vacation; and about how often she had sex in her car.’ 

Oklahoma based advertising executive Robert Andrew was 31, when gunned down in his home’s garage on November 20, 2001, weeks after filing a report that his estranged wife and her lover were plotting his death  

A day before he was slain, Rober Andrew handed over tapes of phone calls buttressing his claim that his wife Brenda’s and her lover James Pavatt [pair seen exiting court in July 2002], were trying to kill him for a hefty insurance claim

However, the circuit court unanimously upheld her conviction on Tuesday – meaning she will face the death penalty. 
Brenda had filed for divorce from Robert, an advertising executive at Jordan Associates, in October 2001.
Robert filed a police report later claiming that Pavatt, a friend and insurance salesman, had slashed his car’s brake lines and tried luring him out to a highway. 
He told police that his wife and Pavatt may be having a ‘relationship.’ 
In early November 2001, weeks before he was gunned down, the victim filed another police report, alleging that his estranged wife Brenda and Pavatt were trying to kill him for a hefty insurance claim. 
He handed over a tape of two suspicious phone calls telling him to go to a hospital on November 19, 2001.
The next day Robert Andrew was shot dead in the garage of his Oklahoma City home.

Brenda Andrew [photo], who allegedly admitted to a prison mate that she orchestrated her husband’s murder, has appealed her conviction since she was found guilty more than two decades ago. With the latest loss, it appears she has come to the end of the road

Brenda who was sporting a superficial gunshot wound to her arm told responding officers that masked intruders broke in and shot at them.  
Within a week, Brenda and Pavatt fled to Mexico, taking the children, Tricity Marie and Parker Bryce with them. The widow and the two children she shared with Robert Andrew would miss his funeral. 
As the love birds made their return to the US in February 2002, after draining their money, they were arrested at the border. 
During the appeal process, the convicts attempt to paint the hit as a botched robbery along with her flight to Mexico with Pavatt, reportedly, outweighed considerations of sexualization.
The inmate to whom she confessed while incarcerated, testified as well.