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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 Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m. His execution came after Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to commute his sentence to life in prison without parole. “A jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death,” said Stitt.
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.
Like most people on death row, Littlejohn experienced violence and poverty as a child. His mother, who was 15 when he was born, struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, according to a petition ...
Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn in the murder of Kenneth Meers in a 1992 robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn maintains his innocence.
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m. “A jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death,” Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement explaining why he declined to commute Littlejohn's sentence to life in prison without parole.
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 ...
The other four inmates were Freddie Eugene Owens, who murdered a convenience store clerk in South Carolina in 1997; Marcellus Williams, charged for the fatal stabbing of a former reporter in Missouri in 1998; Alan Eugene Miller, charged with the murder of three people in a 1999 spree shooting in Alabama; and Emmanuel Littlejohn, charged with ...