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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 was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a convenience store owner. ... Littlejohn's execution was the fourth in the ...
Emmanuel Littlejohn has been waiting for months to find out whether he will die on Thursday or get to live. It's been "the hardest thing I ever did." Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed for the ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Executed on June 27, 2024. Rojem was the longest-serving death row inmate in Oklahoma at the time of his execution. Emmanuel Littlejohn – Convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers. Executed on September 26, 2024. Kevin Ray Underwood – Convicted of the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. Executed on December 19, 2024.
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.