Missouri man set for execution on ’emotional roller coaster,’ attorney says

Published June 5, 2023 11:10 AM

By JIM SALTER
Associated Press

An attorney for a man on Missouri’s death row says her client is on “an emotional roller coaster” amid efforts to spare his life with just a day to go before his scheduled execution. Michael Tisius is set to die by injection Tuesday evening for killing two jailers in 2000 in an ill-fated effort to free a man from a county jail. A clemency request before Republican Gov. Mike Parsons focus on several issues. Tisius was just 19 at the time of the killings; he was neglected as a child; and a juror at his 2010 resentencing may have been illiterate. The Supreme Court also is weighing a request for a stay.

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