TULSA, Okla. – Raymond Johnson is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. Thursday for the 2007 killings of Brooke Whitaker and her 7-month-old daughter, Kya, in Tulsa.
Prosecutors said Johnson attacked Whitaker with a claw hammer before setting Whitaker and Kya on fire while they were still alive. Johnson was convicted and sentenced to death.
Family members said they are still reeling from their loss nearly two decades later as they prepare to witness Johnson’s execution.
Family Remembers Brooke Whitaker
Whitaker was 24 years old and the mother of four children, ages 7, 5, 3 and 7 months old at the time of her death…