McALESTER — Just after 10 a.m., Thursday, death row inmate Raymond Eugene Johnson was executed, using a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
Johnson was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Brooke Whitaker, with a claw hammer and setting the house on fire, which also killed her seven-month-old daughter, Kya. Prosecutors said Johnson and Whitaker were arguing when he fractured her skull and caused more than 20 lacerations on her face and head. Whitaker died from skull fractures and smoke inhalation, and the seven-month-old died of severe burns.
He also set the Tulsa house on fire while the mother and daughter were still alive. Johnson was convicted and sentenced to death. According to court records, in addition to his 2007 first-degree murder conviction, Johnson was convicted of manslaughter in 1996, serving nine years of a 20-year sentence.
Johnson was originally charged with first-degree murder in 1996, but he was offered a deal and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was out of prison for about a year before the 2007 murders.
