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Missouri executed convicted murderer Ernest Johnson on Tuesday evening after both Governor Mike Parson and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant the clemency sought by Pope Francis, among others, on the grounds that Johnson was intellectually disabled.

The execution was performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope.

Ernest Lee Johnson was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri Tuesday evening, some 27 years after he killed three convenience store workers...

Ernest Lee Johnson was executed by the state of Missouri following his conviction of killing three employees at a convenience store in 1994.

Authorities in Missouri have proceeded to execute a man who its claimed was intellectually disabled. Ernest Lee Johnson murdered three people in a robbery in 1994.

Ernest Lee Johnson, 61, was executed on Tuesday night in Missouri, despite pleas for clemency from Pope Francis and members of Congress. Johnson had the mental age of a child.

Pope Francis was among those speaking out on behalf of Ernest Johnson, who killed three in 1994

Ernest Lee Johnson was convicted of a triple homicide in 1994.

Ernest Johnson has been put to death for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago.

A KILLER who murdered three shop workers with a claw hammer vowed "I'm going to heaven" in his haunting final words before his execution.Ernest Lee Jo