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Oklahoma man set to be executed for killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter
The state says Johnson’s attack left Whitaker with more than 20 wounds and killed her infant daughter in a house fire.
- Raymond Eugene Johnson is scheduled to be executed Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the 2007 murders of his ex-girlfriend Brooke Whitaker and her 7-month-old daughter, Kya, in Tulsa.
- In June 2007, Johnson attacked Whitaker with a claw hammer during an argument at her Tulsa home, then doused both victims and the house with gasoline before setting them on fire.
- Although Johnson claimed to be a changed man at his clemency hearing, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied his request in a 5-0 vote, while victims' family members urged the execution proceed.
- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond urged the board to deny clemency, stating Johnson's actions "shattered a family" and left three children without their mother and baby sister.
- If executed, Johnson would be the 11th inmate put to death in the U.S. this year and the second in Oklahoma, ending a legal process spanning nearly 20 years.
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