Oklahoma executes a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter

This image provided by the Oklahoma-department-of-corrections" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="127031" data-entity-type="organization">Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Raymond Johnson. (Oklahoma-department-of-corrections" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="127031" data-entity-type="organization">Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP) 2026-05-14T04:03:47Z McAlester, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter nearly 20 years ago. Raymond Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. Thursday following a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma-state-penitentiary" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="127032" data-entity-type="location">Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said. He was sentenced to death for killing 24-year-old Brooke Whitaker and her 7-month-old daughter, Kya, in June 2007. Prosecutors said Johnson and Whitaker had been arguing at her home in Tulsa before he repeatedly hit her over the head with a metal claw hammer. Whitaker’s skull was fractured and she had more than 20 lacerations on her face and scalp. But she was still conscious and begged Johnson to spare her and Kya, who was sleeping in a bedroom, prosecutors said in documents prepared for Johnson’s clemency hearing in April. “She begged him to call 911. She begged him to let her mom come get baby Kya. She begged him to think of her children,” the Oklahoma-attorney-generals-office" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="127036" data-entity-type="organization">Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said. Whitaker had three other children. Johnson retrieved a gas can from a tool shed in the backyard, doused Whitaker and the house with gasoline, lit a dish towel on fire, threw it at Whitaker and left, the attorney general’s office said. Whitaker died from head injuries and smoke inhalation while her daughter died from severe burns. “Raymond Johnson is a cruel murderer who inflicted unimaginable pain and suffering on his victims,” Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a statement. (