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October 6, 2021

Missouri Executes Man with Intellectual Disability Despite High-Profile Pleas
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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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