In October, 19-year-old Corionsa “Khorry” Ramey took her newborn son to meet his grandfather, Kevin Johnson, in Missouri. “My father was able to hold his grandson, and we were able to get a photograph taken together,” she later wrote of the meeting in court documents. “It was a beautiful but bittersweet moment for me, because I realize that it might be the only time that my father would get to hold my son.”
Johnson is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, November 29, after being sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of police sergeant William McEntee. A month after Johnson met his grandson, a federal court ruled that, under state law, Khorry won’t be allowed to witness her father’s execution because she is under 21.
