Kevin Johnson's legal team had sought to halt the execution, saying in an appeal he was sentenced to death in part because he is Black. The appeal was denied by the state’s highest court..
- A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brotherKevin Johnson’s legal team doesn’t deny that he killed Officer William McEntee in 2005, but contendthat he was sentenced to death in part because he is Black. But in a 5-2 ruling late Monday, the state Supreme Court denied a stay.
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 2005But a broader focus of appeals has been on alleged racial bias. In October, St. Louis Circuit Judge Mary Elizabeth Ott appointed a special prosecutor to review the case. The special prosecutor, E.E.
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