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Oklahoma executes man despite parole board recommending life be spared

This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Emmanuel Littlejohn on February 8, 2023 [Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP Photo]

A man has been put to death by the authorities in the US state of Oklahoma despite a parole board recommending that the life of Emmanuel Littlejohn be spared.

Littlejohn, 52, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1992 robbery of a shop owner that turned fatal. Reports said that as he lay strapped to the gurney with an IV line in his right arm, he looked towards his mother and daughter who were watching.

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