Missouri prepares to execute man for killing officer in 2005.
- A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brotherTuesday, though his lawyers are seeking to have the lethal injection halted.
Johnson, 37, faces execution at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He would be the second Missouri man put to death in 2022 and the 17th nationally. Johnson testified at trial that McEntee kept his mother from entering the house to aid his brother, who died a short time later at a hospital.
Johnson’s lawyers have previously asked the courts to intervene for other reasons, including a history of mental illness and his age — 19 — at the time of the crime. Courts have increasingly moved away from sentencing teen offenders to death since the Supreme Court in 2005 banned the execution of offenders who were younger than 18 at the time of their crime.
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