The execution of a Black death row inmate can proceed after Missouri's highest court rejected a claim that the case was tainted by racial bias and determined the claim would most likely not be successful in legal challenges.
The vote was 5-2, with the majority writing that Keenan's claims"are largely just re-packaged versions of claims Johnson has brought many times before."
"Mr. McCulloch has refused to even acknowledge correspondence from the Special Prosecutor asking him about the case, despite his extensive statements to the news media about this and other cases," Keenan said.that he was sentenced to death specifically because of a"brutal, vicious, unprovoked assassination of a police officer.
At the time, his 12-year-old brother, who had a congenital heart defect, suffered a seizure after he ran next door to his grandmother's house. He died at the hospital. Johnson testified at his trial that McEntee pushed his mother when she arrived at the scene and that the officer's actions angered him as he worried about his brother's health.
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