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Emmanuel Littlejohn was pronounced dead at 10:17 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. ... The execution table is shown in this image from a video released by the Oklahoma ...
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.
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, 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.
Anti-death penalty reverend fights for Emmanuel Littlejohn Littlejohn has been at the center of a clemency campaign led by the Rev. Jeff Hood , anti-death penalty activist who has witnessed seven ...
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.
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 ...
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.