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Missouri Executes Man with Intellectual Disability Despite High-Profile Pleas

HeadlineOct 06, 2021

The state of Missouri executed Ernest Lee Johnson Tuesday, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition to delay the killing and despite pleas from lawmakers, activists and even the Vatican to spare Johnson, an African-American man who had an intellectual disability. It was Missouri’s first execution in over a year and the seventh in the U.S. this year.

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