Ashlynd Huffman of The Frontier

Emmanuel Littlejohn has been on death row for 32 years. He was sentenced to death for killing an Oklahoma City convenience store clerk during a robbery in 1992 but says another man pulled the trigger.

Richard Rojem is expected to be Oklahoma’s second execution this year after spending nearly four decades on death row.

State leaders have asked the court for 90 days between executions to combat trauma, staffing shortages and reduce the potential for errors.

Firearms have been the leading cause of domestic violence homicides in Oklahoma since 1998. The state’s anti-red flag law bans any efforts to seize weapons by court order.