Posted on 10/05/2021 7:07:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The state of Missouri killed a prisoner by lethal injection on Tuesday, ending a lengthy fight by activists to spare the life of a man convicted in a brutal 1994 triple murder.
Ernest Johnson, 61, was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at Bonne Terre prison and died at 6:11 p.m. after last-minute pleas for clemency from advocates including Pope Francis.
His death came hours after the US Supreme Court took a pass on a long-shot attempt by his lawyers to keep him alive.
A two-sentence order Tuesday afternoon from Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied a stay of execution for Johnson, who was the seventh person put to death in the US this year and the first who wasn’t a federal prisoner or executed in Texas.
Johnson’s attorneys had claimed that his execution was unconstitutional because he was “intellectually disabled.” He was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and had lost brain tissue from a 2007 tumor-removal surgery.
Politicians and other advocates had also pushed Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency to Johnson, who is black, on racial justice grounds.
The Pope joined the calls in the days before the execution. In a letter sent on his behalf by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, he pointed out Johnson’s “humanity and the sacredness of all human life.
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Bye.
Kavanaugh wiped himself with your "little plea", Poop.
1994 was 27 years ago.
It takes too long to carry out these sentences.
The guy who killed the Lindberg baby was executed inside 6 months.
pleas for clemency from advocates including Pope Francis.
A broken clock is wrong many times a day.
injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital(Plus bleach)
Just the kind of guy that the anti-pope stands up for. Let’s all send Pope Frannie a sympathy card.
> last-minute pleas for clemency from advocates including Pope Francis <
I wonder if Francis ever tried to comfort the families of the victims. A phone call, a letter, anything like that. Or was he just too busy?
Next!
Good riddance. I don’t care his background, his actions have consequences.
I stand with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (http://www.killology.com)
I don’t want to know, much less remember his name.
I don’t ever want to forget the names of his victims!
That’s glacial! 6 months!?
The guy who tried to kill then president-elect FDR, managed to kill Chicago Mayor Tony Cermak. They were both traveling in Miami. Cermak lingered for a couple weeks, and then died, so they switched to a murder trial midstream. The total time from crime to execution was something like 32 days.
Good grief, what were they trying to do, kill him?
Politicians and other “advocates” had also pushed Gov. Parson to grant clemency to Johnson on “racial justice grounds”.
WTF does that even mean? He murdered three people with a claw hammer. Good Lord people have lost their damn mind.
He goes sleepy-by nice and easy while the women were horribly bludgeoned; liberals weep for the killer who died peacefully in his sleep.
The pope is a dope.
Was just getting ready to post the same thing. Sixty days, ninety days, time to judge appeals, I can see, but 27 years? That’s absurd.
It isn’t fair to the convicted either, but it definitely isn’t a good deal to the taxpayer who has to give these guys three hots and a cot and the rest of it, for decades on end.
His last meal was two bacon double cheeseburgers, two strawberry milkshakes and a large pizza, officials said.
And a Diet Coke…
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