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The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board is the parole board of the state of Oklahoma.The board was created by an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution in 1944. [1] The Board has the authority to empower the Governor of Oklahoma to grant pardons, paroles, and commutations to people convicted of offenses against the state of Oklahoma.
On the same day of the hearing, by a majority vote of 3–2, the state pardon board recommended clemency for Littlejohn, whose fate was at the hands of the Oklahoma state governor Kevin Stitt, who had the discretion to either reject clemency and allow the execution or grant Littlejohn clemency and commute his death sentence to life in prison ...
"I am deeply disappointed that Governor Stitt did not follow the recommendation of his hand-picked Pardon and Parole Board to grant clemency and stay the execution," Oklahoma State House Rep ...
Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend the governor spare the life of a man on death row for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner during ...
In 2015, Smothermon handled a report from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations "on whether a Shawnee City Commissioner tried to bribe another commissioner." [3] In 2018, Smothermon ruled that a "U.S. Marshal and an Oklahoma drug agent involved in the fatal shooting of a prison escapee were both justified in using deadly force."
In a statement, state Attorney General Gentner Drummond came out against the decision, saying, “My office intends to make our case to the governor why there should not be clemency granted to ...
Blanket clemency is clemency granted to multiple persons and can be in the form of a pardon, shortening of a prison sentence, or a commutation of a sentence, or a reprieve. Most states' governors and the President of the United States have the power to grant clemency; In other states, that power is committed to an appointed agency or board, or ...
Emmanuel A. Littlejohn, 52, is set to die Sept. 26 for the 1992 shooting death of Kenny Meers, 31, during a convenience store robbery.