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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Missouri execution to go ahead after governor declines to give 11th hour reprieve (OLD)

US Supreme Court

Missouri Governor Mike Parson has said he will not grant clemency to death row inmate Carman Deck after the US Supreme Court declined to intervene to halt the man’s execution.

Deck, 56, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 pm on Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the double murder of an elderly couple during a robbing at their rural home in July 1996.

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