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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 ...
Oklahoma death row inmate Emmanuel A. Littlejohn, right, is pictured with Mark Jacobs during Littlejohn's clemency hearing before the Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024.
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 ...
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 five members of the Board of Pardons are appointed by the governor. The board meets on regularly scheduled, publicly announced dates to consider applications for pardon, sentence commutation, and restoration of rights and privileges of citizenship. All of the board's recommendations for clemency are forwarded to the governor for final action.
The Board's use of the new risk assessment instrument resulted in their having a higher rate of parole approval. The parole revocation rate has not changed, and in the first year, only 5 of the people returned to prison for new crimes, a rate of 0.2% that was a fraction of the national rate of 10.5%. [9]
The United States Parole Commission remains the parole board for those who committed a federal offense before November 1, 1987, as well as those who committed a District of Columbia Code offense before August 5, 2000, a Uniform Code of Military Justice offense and are parole-eligible, and persons who are serving prison terms imposed by foreign ...
In June of 1992, 31-year-old Kenneth Meers was killed by a single bullet during a robbery at the convenience store he owned in Oklahoma City. Prosecutors charged 26-year-old Glenn Bethany and 20 ...