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 executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:17 a.m. Thursday. In August, the state’s Pardon and Parole Board voted in favor of granting clemency to Littlejohn — who has long claimed he didn’t commit the crime he was convicted of 22 years ago — but Republican Governor Kevin Stitt moved forward with the execution anyway.
