The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, pictured during a June 17 clemency hearing, on Wednesday voted to recommend clemency for Oklahoma County killer Emmanuel A. Littlejohn. (Photo by Kennedy Thomason/Oklahoma Voice)
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board in an unusual move on Wednesday voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Oklahoma County killer Emmanuel A. Littlejohn.
Gov. Kevin Stitt will make the final determination. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Littlejohn is set to die Sept. 26 by lethal injection for the 1992 shooting death of Kenny Meers during a convenience store robbery. Meers was shot in the face.
Board members Richard A. Miller and Kevin Buchanan voted against clemency. Members Edward Konieczny, H. Calvin Prince III and Robert Reavis II voted for clemency.
The action came after Littlejohn, his family members and Meers’ family made emotional pleas for and against mercy.