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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.
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.
Oklahoma executed Emmanuel Littlejohn in the morning − despite a clemency board's recommendation to spare his life − and Alabama put Alan Eugene Miller to death about nine hours later using a ...
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.
But when Littlejohn went to trial the following year, prosecutors flipped the script. This time they argued it was Littlejohn, not Bethany, who shot and killed Meers. Littlejohn was sentenced to ...
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.
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 ...
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.