by Alisa Nelson | Aug 13, 2024 | Crime / Courts, News
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...
by Alisa Nelson | Jun 11, 2024 | Crime / Courts, News
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...
by admin | Aug 1, 2023 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
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...
by Alisa Nelson | Jul 25, 2023 | Crime / Courts, News
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...
by Alisa Nelson | Nov 29, 2022 | Crime / Courts, News
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...
