Crime

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Was justice served in the Ernest Johnson case?

The scene after a triple murder at Casey's in Columbia in 1994. — KMIZ archive

Published October 6, 2021 10:18 AM

Missouri executed Ernest Lee Johnson on Tuesday.

Johnson had been convicted of the 1994 murders of Fred Jones, Mary Bratcher and Mable Scruggs in Columbia and had awaited execution for about 25 years.

But his lawyers and advocates fought for clemency, saying he was intellectually disabled and it would be unconstitutional to execute him.

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