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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Judge blocks 19-year-old daughter’s plea to attend father’s execution

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A judge has blocked a 19-year-old woman’s desperate plea to watch her father’s execution for a crime he committed at the age of 19 – because of a Missouri law that claims she is too young to see his death sentence carried out.

Corionsa “Khorry” Ramey, 19, has been barred from attending Kevin Johnson Jr.’s imminent execution for the 2005 murder of a police officer, after a judge sided with the state over its law that requires execution witnesses to be 21 or older.

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