Missouri death row inmate Ernest Johnson. A Missouri man was put to death for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope. It was the first execution in Missouri since May 2020 and just the seventh in the US this year. It wasn't the first time a pope has sought to intervene in a Missouri execution. The Missouri Supreme Court tossed that second death sentence, and Johnson was sentenced a third time in 2006.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 06, 2021 01:30 UTC