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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 actually killed Meers.
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 was executed by the state of Oklahoma Thursday morning in the shooting death of a beloved convenience store owner, despite a recommendation from a clemency board that his life ...
Executed on November 30, 2023. Richard Norman Rojem Jr. – Convicted of the 1984 rape and murder of his stepdaughter. 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.
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, 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.
A pastor told rows of people gathered Saturday at a church in Wichita that it broke his heart to be standing before them. Loved ones of Emmanual Littlejohn, 52, had held onto hope that they would ...
On May 23, 2024, Mullis's death warrant was issued, which scheduled his execution to take place on September 24, 2024, which was four days after his 38th birthday. [ 38 ] Mullis was one of the five inmates across five different states in the U.S. who were slated to be executed within one week between September 20 and September 26, 2024.