2026年5月14日 / 美国东部时间上午11:58 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
俄克拉荷马州周四上午通过注射死刑处决了一名死囚。该囚犯因近20年前杀害其前女友及其婴儿而被定罪。
监狱官员表示，52岁的雷蒙德·约翰逊于周四上午10点12分在麦卡莱斯特的俄克拉荷马州立监狱接受三药联合注射后被宣布死亡。
他因2007年6月杀害24岁的布鲁克·惠特克及其7个月大的女儿基亚而被判处死刑。
约翰逊是今年迄今为止美国第11名被处决的囚犯，也是俄克拉荷马州第二名被处决的囚犯。另一名俄克拉荷马州囚犯肯德里克·辛普森于2月份被注射死刑，其因2006年的驾车枪击案导致两名男子死亡。自1月以来，佛罗里达州已执行了5次死刑，数量超过其他任何州。
检察官表示，约翰逊和惠特克在塔尔萨的家中发生争执后，他用金属爪锤反复击打她的头部。惠特克的颅骨骨折，面部和头皮有20多处割伤。但她仍有意识，恳求约翰逊放过她和正在卧室睡觉的基亚，检察官在4月份约翰逊的赦免听证会准备的文件中表示。
“她恳求他拨打911。她恳求他让她的母亲来接基亚宝宝。她恳求他想想她的孩子们，”俄克拉荷马州总检察长办公室表示。惠特克还有另外三个孩子。
总检察长办公室表示，约翰逊从后院的工具棚里拿出一个汽油罐，将汽油泼在惠特克和房子上，点燃了一条洗碗布，扔向惠特克后逃离。惠特克因头部受伤和烟雾吸入死亡，而她的女儿则因严重烧伤死亡。
“雷蒙德·约翰逊是一名残忍的谋杀犯，给他的受害者带来了难以想象的痛苦和折磨，”俄克拉荷马州总检察长根特纳·德拉蒙德在一份声明中表示。
约翰逊的律师没有向美国最高法院提交最后一刻的上诉以阻止他的处决。
他的律师在之前的上诉中辩称约翰逊的逮捕是非法的、警方对其逼供，以及约翰逊的审判律师未经他同意就承认了他在惠特克死亡案中的罪行，但未获成功。
4月份，俄克拉荷马州由五人组成的赦免与假释委员会以全票否决了约翰逊的赦免请求。在那次赦免听证会上，约翰逊向受害者家属道歉并请求原谅，称自己已经改过自新。
“我道歉。没有借口，没有辩解，只有真诚的道歉。想要知道我的道歉是否真诚，看看我的行为。看看我的生活。看看我做出了怎样的改变。我过着充满悔恨的生活。我一直如此，”约翰逊在接受全国反死刑组织“死刑行动”采访时说道。
惠特克的家属要求继续执行注射死刑。
“处决他无法让我找回我的母亲和妹妹，也无法抹去近20年来的痛苦。但这最终会阻止他继续伤害我们，”惠特克的长女洛根·克莱克在给委员会的一封信中说道。
除一级谋杀罪定罪外，约翰逊还因1996年的过失杀人罪被判处20年监禁，已服刑9年。
Oklahoma executes inmate convicted of killing ex-girlfriend and her baby
May 14, 2026 / 11:58 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Oklahoma executed a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her baby almost two decades ago.
Raymond Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. Thursday following a three-drug injection at the 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.
Johnson was the 11th person executed in the United States so far this year, and the second executed in Oklahoma. Another Oklahoma inmate, Kendrick Simpson, received a lethal injection in February for the drive-by shooting deaths of two men in 2006. Florida has carried out five executions since January, more executions than any other state.
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 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.
Johnson’s attorneys did not file a last-minute appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his execution.
His attorneys unsuccessfully argued in earlier appeals that Johnson’s arrest was illegal, police coerced a confession from him and Johnson’s trial lawyer conceded his guilt in Whitaker’s death without his permission.
In April, Oklahoma’s five-member Pardon and Parole Board voted unanimously to deny Johnson clemency. During that clemency hearing, Johnson apologized to the victims’ family and asked for forgiveness, saying he was a changed person.
“I apologize. No excuses, no justifications, a sincere apology. And to know that it’s sincere, look at my actions. Look at my life. Look how I’ve changed. I’m living a remorseful life. I’m living it,” Johnson said in an interview with Death Penalty Action, a national anti-death penalty group.
Whitaker’s family members asked for the lethal injection to proceed.
“Executing him will not give me my mom or sister back, it will not take away almost 20 years of pain. What it will do is finally stop him from continuing to hurt us,” Logan Kleck, Whitaker’s oldest daughter, said in a letter to the board.
In addition to his first-degree murder conviction, Johnson also served nine years of a 20-year sentence after being convicted of manslaughter in 1996.
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