Oklahoma executed Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, on Thursday for the 1992 shooting death of convenience store owner Kenneth Meers, despite a 3-2 recommendation from the state’s Pardon and Parole Board to spare his life. Littlejohn received a lethal injection at 10:17 a.m., marking him as the 14th inmate executed in Oklahoma since Governor Kevin Stitt resumed executions in 2021. While Littlejohn confessed to participating in the robbery, he insisted that his accomplice, Glenn Bethany, was the one who fired the fatal shot; Bethany received a life sentence without parole. Legal arguments highlighted inconsistencies in prosecutions and questioned Littlejohn’s mental maturity at the time of the crime. Stitt, who has rarely granted clemency, met with both sides but ultimately proceeded with the execution. If another scheduled execution in Alabama occurs on the same day, it would mark a significant moment in U.S. death penalty history, with five executions happening within one week.