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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.
McALESTER — Oklahoma on Thursday carried out its 14th execution since lethal injections resumed three years ago after a long hiatus brought about by drug mix-ups and botched procedures.
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.
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed by lethal injection Sept. 26 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. By video, he apologized for his involvement in the robbery where ...
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.
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.
Jack Roady, Galveston County criminal district attorney, stated that Mullis' execution marked the "long-awaited fulfillment of a verdict rendered by a jury who heard all of the evidence." Kayla Allen, first assistant district attorney, noted that the jury's verdict had been "affirmed by 13 years of post-conviction review by higher courts."
Darryl Littlejohn, one of two bouncers at The Falls where St. Guillen was seen the night she was murdered, was charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, and unlawful imprisonment. [14] DNA that was proven to be Littlejohn's, most likely caused from a nosebleed, was found in blood on the plastic ties used to bind St. Guillen's hands. [14]