{"id":4748,"date":"2021-10-06T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:24:29","slug":"missouri-executes-triple-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Executes Triple Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite appeals from the Pope and racial activists including Congressman Cori Bush,\u00a0 triple murderer Earnest Johnson was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/m.stltoday.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/missouri\/missouri-man-executed-for-killing-3-workers-in-94-robbery\/article_ce2a8435-2185-5911-a977-5bdfd7562400.html#tracking-source=article-related-bottom\">reports<\/a> that Johnson\u00a0 was sentenced to death for the February 1994 murders of three at Casey&#8217;s General Store in Columbia.\u00a0 Johnson, who intended to rob the store for money to buy drugs, waited until closing time before pulling a gun on the manager, 46-year-old Mary Bratcher, and demanding that she open the safe.\u00a0 After Bratcher tried to flush the safe key down a toilet, Johnson shot her and employees Mable Scruggs, 57 and Fred Jones, 58.\u00a0 When all three survived the gunshots, Johnson attacked them with a claw hammer and a screwdriver.\u00a0 A mountain of evidence left the jury with no question regarding Johnson&#8217;s guilt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over years of appeals, Johnson&#8217;s attorneys claimed he suffered from intellectual disabilities, fetal alcohol syndrome and a low IQ.\u00a0 In a last minute appeal they claimed that the execution drug, pentobarbital, might cause seizures to Johnson&#8217;s damaged brain.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, he died peacefully nine minutes after receiving a lethal injection of the pain killer.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/3798105\/ernest-lee-johnson-victim-execution\/\">story<\/a> by Lauren Fruen of the Sun noted that Johnson beat Mary Bratcher, the mother of three young children,\u00a0 so may times with the claw hammer that part of her brain was missing.\u00a0 He also stabbed Bratcher ten times with a screwdriver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite appeals from the Pope and racial activists including Congressman Cori Bush,\u00a0 triple murderer Earnest Johnson was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press reports that Johnson\u00a0 was sentenced to death for the February 1994 murders of three at Casey&#8217;s General Store in Columbia.\u00a0 Johnson, who intended to rob the store for money to buy drugs, waited until closing time before pulling a gun on the manager, 46-year-old Mary Bratcher, and demanding that she open the safe.\u00a0 After Bratcher tried to flush the safe key down a toilet, Johnson shot her and employees Mable Scruggs, 57 and Fred Jones, 58.\u00a0 When all three survived the gunshots, Johnson attacked them with a claw hammer and a screwdriver.\u00a0 A mountain of evidence left the jury with no question regarding Johnson&#8217;s guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Missouri Executes Triple Murderer - Crime &amp; 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