Seventeen years after raping and murdering a nine-year-old girl, Christopher Collings is scheduled to be put to death. The Missouri Supreme Court has set the execution date of December 3 for Collings. In 2007, the southwest Missouri man took Rowan Ford from her home...
Missouri has carried out its second execution of the year. At 6:11 p.m., David Hosier was pronounced dead at the state prison in southeast Missouri’s Bonne Terre. He died by lethal injection for the 2009 killing of his ex-lover, Angela Gilpin. Law enforcement also...
Johnny Johnson took his last breath Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He was declared dead at 6:33 p.m. Tuesday’s execution of Johnson is the 136th person Missouri has put to death and the fourth this year. In Johnson’s final written statement, he...
A man who killed a six-year-old girl wants Gov. Mike Parson to spare his life. Johnny Johnson, 45, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on August 1 at the state prison in Bonne Terre. A St. Louis jury convicted Johnson in the 2002 kidnapping, murder, and attempted...
Missouri has executed its 129th inmate. Kevin Johnson took his last breath at the state prison in Bonne Terre Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at 7:40 p.m. Johnson, 37, was in prison for about 17 years before being put to death. He was given the death sentence for the...