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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Missouri to execute Kevin Johnson despite daughter’s pleas and findings of racist conviction

Missouri Department of Corrections

The state of Missouri plans to execute Kevin Johnson, 37, on Tuesday evening for the 2005 murder of a police officer, despite a special prosecutor’s findings that “there was racial discrimination infecting this prosecution.”

On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled against staying the execution while lower courts considered evidence of bias in the conviction.

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