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The state of Missouri executed double-murderer Michael Tisius by lethal injection Tuesday evening.\u00a0 He died ten minutes after receiving a fatal dose of the anesthesia pentobarbital.\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press reports<\/a> that Tisius was 19-years-old in 2000 when he murdered two guards at the Huntsville County Jail while helping a friend escape.\u00a0 In the years since his conviction, his attorneys claimed that Tisius’ sentence should be reduced to life-without-parole because of his neglected childhood, and because one of the sentencing jurors was illiterate.\u00a0 His attorneys also claimed that the murders were unintentional, although Tisius came to the jail armed with a gun and shot one of the guards multiple times.\u00a0 It was the twelfth U.S. execution this year.\u00a0 Last year seven murderers had been executed by June 8th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state of Missouri executed double-murderer Michael Tisius by lethal injection Tuesday evening.\u00a0 He died ten minutes after receiving a fatal dose of the anesthesia pentobarbital.\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press reports that Tisius was 19-years-old in 2000 when he murdered two guards at the Huntsville County Jail while helping a friend escape.\u00a0 In the years since his conviction, his attorneys claimed that Tisius’ sentence should be reduced to life-without-parole because of his neglected childhood, and because one of the sentencing jurors was illiterate.\u00a0 His attorneys also claimed that the murders were unintentional, although Tisius came to the jail armed with a gun and shot one of the guards multiple times.\u00a0 It was the twelfth U.S. execution this year.\u00a0 Last year seven murderers had been executed by June 8th.<\/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-9058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nMissouri Executes Double Murderer - 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