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Oklahoma executed Emmanuel Littlejohn Thursday morning for the 1992 killing of a convenience store owner.

Oklahoma’s governor waited until the day of Emmanuel Littlejohn’s execution to announce whether he would grant the prisoner clemency. Littlejohn spoke to NPR.

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.

NPR identified the company that provided Texas with execution drugs and uncovered that state and federal authorities alleged the pharmacy and some of its owners violated laws meant to protect patients

Richard Norman Rojem Jr., 66, was convicted of the 1984 murder and rape of his seven-year-old stepdaughter Layla Dawn Cummings and has been incarcerated for nearly four decades.

Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, died at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, the first death row inmate executed in Oklahoma this year.

A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.

Oklahoma executed the fourth death row inmate of the year on Thursday morning.

Anthony Sanchez was put to death for the 1996 murder of Juli Busken.

It was the first execution carried out in Alabama this year after the state halted executions last fall. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced a pause on executions in November to review procedures.