The Tuesday execution marked the state's second execution this year and the nation's 17th.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With his final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court denied, the State of Missouri on Tuesday executed a man who murdered a Kirkwood police officer in 2005.
According to the news outlet, Tuesday's execution marked the state's second execution this year and the nation's 17th.The Associated Press reported that McEntee was among the officers who were sent to Johnson's house that day to serve the then-19-year-old a warrant. During his trial, Johnson testified McEntee wouldn't let his mother enter the home to aid the child, who later died at a hospital, the Associated Press reported.
Court documents said Johnson later returned to the shooting scene, where he found McEntee on his knees alive, the AP reported.
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