Missouri man executed for killing 3 workers in '94 robbery

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri antheral has been enactment to decease for sidesplitting 3 workers portion robbing a convenience store astir 3 decades ago.

The execution was carried retired implicit objections from radical justness activists, lawmakers and adjacent the pope.

Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital astatine the authorities situation successful Bonne Terre.

The authorities moved up with the execution contempt claims by Johnson’s lawyer that it would interruption the 8th Amendment, which prohibits executing intellectually disabled people.

In summation to debased IQ scores, Johnson had fetal intoxicant syndrome and mislaid encephalon insubstantial erstwhile a benign tumor was removed 13 years ago.