Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be executed Thursday.

Oklahoma Death Row Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed on Thursday for a 1992 murder, despite a recommendation of clemency from the state Pardon and Parole Board.

A parole board recommended Littlejohn’s sentence be changed to life without parole, but Gov. Kevin Stitt approved the execution anyway.

Littlejohn and his accomplice, Glenn Bethany, got away with only a few hundred dollars from the Root-N-Scoot convenience store in south Oklahoma City on June 19, 1992. Littlejohn was 20 years old at the time and had been recently released from prison.

Emmanuel Littlejohn was declared dead at 10:17 a.m. on Thursday after receiving a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

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.

Convicted Oklahoma County killer Emmanuel A. Littlejohn was put to death Thursday after Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to grant clemency. “These decisions are very difficult and I do not make them lightly,

Emmanuel Littlejohn, a death-row inmate convicted of a 1992 Oklahoma City convenience store robbery and murder, was executed Thursday after spending more than 30 years behind bars.

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