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Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:17 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. In his last words, he told his mother and daughter that he loved them but expressed no ...
The execution gurney is shown in this image from a video released by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. As the end grows closer, death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn hasn't been resting well.
Oklahoma has carried out 14 executions under Stitt, having resumed them in 2021 after a more than six-year hiatus. In voting 3-2 last month to recommend clemency, the board appeared to be moved by questions Littlejohn's lawyers raised about whether he or a co-defendant fired the shot that killed Kenneth Meers.
Littlejohn is the third Oklahoma inmate put to death this year and the 14th since the state resumed executions in 2021 after a more than six-year hiatus. If another execution set for Thursday evening in Alabama is carried out, it would mark the first time in decades that five death row inmates were put to death in the U.S. within one week.
Littlejohn's execution was the fourth in the U.S. in less than a week and comes just hours before Alabama is set to use nitrogen gas to execute Alan Eugene Miller on Thursday evening.
The murderers, Glenn Bethany and Emmanuel Littlejohn, were arrested and charged with robbing and murdering Meers. Littlejohn was sentenced to death, while Bethany received a life sentence in separate trials between 1993 and 1994. A controversial point in the case was the lack of direct evidence proving who had killed Meers.
Emmanuel Antonio Littlejohn has become the fourth US death row inmate to be executed in the last week, despite an Oklahoma clemency board voting to commute his sentence.. Littlejohn, 52, was ...
Oklahoma death row inmate Emmanuel A. Littlejohn, right, is pictured with Mark Jacobs during Littlejohn's clemency hearing before the Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024.