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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should the state execute Ernest Johnson?

The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison, California.
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The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison, California.
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Published 2:08 AM

Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to be executed next week.

Johnson was convicted in 1994 and sentenced to death for the murders of three Columbia convenience store workers with a claw hammer. Legal challenges to his sentence have failed. However, death penalty foes are asking the governor to intervene, saying Johnson is intellectually disabled.

Should Johnson be executed? Vote in the poll below.

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