In his last words, he told his mother and daughter that he loved them but expressed no remorse and did not repeat his claim of innocence. "I'm OK," he said in tears, strapped to the gurney.

Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, died by lethal injection Thursday for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner during a robbery. Littlejohn received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be executed Thursday.