{"id":8244,"date":"2022-11-30T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8244"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:59:45","slug":"missouri-executes-cop-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8244","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Executes Cop Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri felon, who executed a St. Louis police officer in 2005, was put to death by lethal injection yesterday.\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/legal\/articles\/mo-prepares-to-execute-man-for-ambushing-killing-police-officer-in-2005-LDNsl8UvDkfWvi8d\/\">reports<\/a> that the state Supreme Court had twice denied to stay Kevin Johnson&#8217;s execution and the Governor refused to grant him clemency.\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson was on probation for beating his girlfriend when on July 5 police officers, including Sergent William McEntee, came to his house to investigate the ownership of a vehicle he allegedly possessed.\u00a0 As officers approached the house Johnson told his 12-year-old brother to run next door to his grandmother&#8217;s home.\u00a0 Facts presented in the Missouri Supreme Court&#8217;s 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/mo-supreme-court\/1639090.html#:~:text=Kevin%20Johnson%20%28hereinafter%2C%20%E2%80%9CMovant%E2%80%9D%29%20was%20convicted%20by%20a,v.%20Johnson%2C%20284%20S.W.3d%20561%20%28Mo.%20banc%202009%29.\">decision<\/a> denying habeas corpus relief indicate that once the brother, who had congenital hear disease, got next door he had a seizure and died later in the hospital.\u00a0 While officers attended to the boy and called an ambulance, McEntee kept the grandmother from entering the house.\u00a0 The officers eventually left the neighborhood, but hours later Sergent McEntee returned to investigate a report of illegal fireworks.\u00a0 As he was in his patrol car talking to some teens, Johnson approached saying. &#8220;you killed my brother&#8217; and shot McEntee five times.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the juveniles was shot in the leg.\u00a0 Johnson then took McEntee&#8217;s gun and left.\u00a0 The patrol car rolled a few feet and stopped against another car, and Sergent McEntee, mortally wounded, left the car and fell to his knees.\u00a0 Johnson returned, told bystanders to get out of the way and then shot McEntee twice in the head.\u00a0 As he walked away witnesses testified that they heard him say \u201cthat m\u2013\u2013\u2013 f\u2013\u2013\u2013 let my brother die, he needs to see what it feels like to die.\u201d\u00a0 Johnson&#8217;s conviction and death sentence were upheld by multiple courts on direct appeal and habeas corpus.\u00a0 No court accepted his claims of trial error, diminished capacity, incompetent council, racial bias in the jury selection or his claim that the death penalty was racially biased.<\/p>\n<p>Sergent McEntee left a wife and three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri felon, who executed a St. Louis police officer in 2005, was put to death by lethal injection yesterday.\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press reports that the state Supreme Court had twice denied to stay Kevin Johnson&#8217;s execution and the Governor refused to grant him clemency.\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson was on probation for beating his girlfriend when on July 5 police officers, including Sergent William McEntee, came to his house to investigate the ownership of a vehicle he allegedly possessed.\u00a0 As officers approached the house Johnson told his 12-year-old brother to run next door to his grandmother&#8217;s home.\u00a0 Facts presented in the Missouri Supreme Court&#8217;s 2013 decision denying habeas corpus relief indicate that once the brother, who had congenital hear disease, got next door he had a seizure and died later in the hospital.\u00a0 While officers attended to the boy and called an ambulance, McEntee kept the grandmother from entering the house.\u00a0 The officers eventually left the neighborhood, but hours later Sergent McEntee returned to investigate a report of illegal fireworks.\u00a0 As he was in his patrol car talking to some teens, Johnson approached saying. &#8220;you killed my brother&#8217; 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