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In August, the state’s Pardon and Parole Board voted in favor of granting clemency to Littlejohn — who has long claimed he didn’t commit the crime he was convicted of 22 years ago — but ...
In a rare move, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Littlejohn, whose legal team argued that the evidence in the case was unclear, especially who the ...
On the same day of the hearing, by a majority vote of 3–2, the state pardon board recommended clemency for Littlejohn, whose fate was at the hands of the Oklahoma state governor Kevin Stitt, who had the discretion to either reject clemency and allow the execution or grant Littlejohn clemency and commute his death sentence to life in prison ...
While Littlejohn has exhausted his appeals, he awaits a clemency decision from Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, after the state parole board voted 3-2 to recommend commuting his sentence to life ...
The board's narrow decision means the fate of Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, now rests with Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who could commute his sentence to life in prison without parole. Stitt has granted clemency only once, in 2021, to death row inmate Julius Jones, commuting his sentence to life without parole just hours before Jones was scheduled ...
The laws on the books in Mississippi also provide the death penalty for aircraft hijacking under Title 97, Chapter 25, Section 55 of the Mississippi Code, but in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy v. Louisiana, that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to non-homicidal crimes against the person. However, the ruling ...
New Jersey State Parole Board; New Mexico Parole Board [12] New York State Division of Parole; Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; Rhode Island Parole Board [13] South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services; Tennessee Board of Parole; Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles; Utah Board ...
Clemency does not mean that the seriousness of the crime is overlooked or that the pain of victim's family is forgotten.