Oklahoma Man Raymond Johnson Executed By Lethal Injection For Brutal Murder Of Ex And Her Infant

Raymond Johnson was executed by lethal injection successful Oklahoma connected Thursday, astir 2 decades aft he was convicted of nan sadistic murders of his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter.

Johnson was pronounced dormant astatine 10:12 a.m. Thursday, pursuing a three-drug injection astatine nan Oklahoma State Penitentiary successful McAlester, situation officials said.

The 52-year-old was executed for nan June 2007 deaths of 24-year-old Brooke Whitaker and her infant, Kya.

Prosecutors elaborate how, pursuing an early greeting statement astatine Whitaker’s Tulsa home, Johnson many times struck her caput pinch a metallic claw hammer, fracturing her skull and causing complete 20 lacerations.

Despite her terrible injuries, Whitaker remained conscious and pleaded pinch Johnson to spare her and Kya, who was dormant successful a bedroom, according to documents prepared for Johnson’s clemency hearing.

"She begged him to telephone 911. She begged him to fto her mom travel get babe Kya. She begged him to deliberation of her children," nan Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office stated.

Johnson past retrieved a state can, doused Whitaker and nan location pinch gasoline, ignited a dishtowel, threw it astatine Whitaker, and fled.

Whitaker succumbed to caput injuries and fume inhalation, while Kya died from terrible burns.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond condemned Johnson arsenic "a sadistic murderer who inflicted unimaginable symptom and suffering connected his victims."

Johnson’s attorneys did not record a last-minute entreaty pinch nan U.S. Supreme Court. Previous appeals, which unsuccessfully based on forbidden arrest, coerced confession, and unauthorized concession of guilt by his proceedings lawyer, failed.

In April, Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board unanimously denied clemency.

At his clemency hearing, Johnson apologized to nan victims’ family, claiming to beryllium a changed man.

"I apologize. No excuses, nary justifications, a sincere apology. And to cognize that it’s sincere, look astatine my actions. Look astatine my life. Look really I’ve changed. I’m surviving a remorseful life. I’m surviving it," he told Death Penalty Action. However, Whitaker’s family urged nan execution to proceed.

Logan Kleck, Whitaker’s oldest daughter, wrote to nan board: "Executing him will not springiness maine my mom aliases sister back, it will not return distant almost 20 years of pain. What it will do is yet extremity him from continuing to wounded us."

Johnson besides has a 1996 manslaughter conviction, for which he served 9 years of a 20-year sentence.

If carried out, his execution would beryllium nan 2nd successful Oklahoma this twelvemonth and nan 11th nationwide.