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Washington (AFP) - A Missouri man convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared. Brian Dorsey, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:11 pm Central Time (2311 GMT) following lethal injection for the 2006 murders of Sarah Bonnie, 25, and her husband Ben Bonnie, 28, in New Bloomfield, Missouri. Dorsey pleaded guilty to shooting the couple with a shotgun after they took him in for the night to protect him from drug dealers who were trying to collect on a debt. The Bonnies' four-year-old daughter, who was in the hous...
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Washington (AFP) - A 42-year-old man was executed in the midwestern US state of Missouri on Tuesday for killing two prison guards in a botched attempt to break a former cellmate out of jail. Michael Tisius was pronounced dead at 6:10 pm local time (2310 GMT) at a state prison in the town of Bonne Terre, the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a statement. He had been scheduled to be executed via lethal injection. Tisius was convicted of the murders of sheriff's deputies Jason Acton and Leon Egley during a June 2000 bid to free a former cellmate, Roy Vance. According to prosecutors, Tisi...
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Washington (AFP) - A man convicted of murder was put to death in the midwestern US state of Missouri on Tuesday in an execution that his 19-year-old daughter was barred from witnessing. Kevin Johnson, a 37-year-old African American man, was sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of a white policeman in a suburb of St Louis. Johnson was executed by lethal injection in a prison in the town of Bonne Terre, the Missouri Department of Corrections said. It said he was pronounced dead at 7:40 pm local time (0040 GMT). Johnson was the 17th inmate put to death in the United States this year. Johnson's ...
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St. Louis (AFP) - Standing outside what had been the last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri on Friday, Pamela Lukehart choked back tears as she recalled how things were before the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision enshrining a woman's right to the procedure. "Women died getting abortions back then," the 68-year-old told AFP, her voice breaking as she stood alongside scores of other protesters. "We were trying to protect women's rights, women's lives, and now they've taken all that away from us." The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Friday overturned its monumental decision in Ro...
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Washington (AFP) - A 61-year-old African-American man was executed in the US state of Missouri on Tuesday, despite pleas for clemency from the Vatican and his lawyers on the grounds that he was intellectually disabled. Ernest Lee Johnson was put to death by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of three convenience store workers during a botched robbery in Columbia, Missouri. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 pm (2311 GMT), according to a statement from the Missouri Department of Corrections. Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, on Monday had rejected appeals to halt the execution, which ...
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