Even a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court wasn’t enough to grant Ernest Johnson clemency. The death row inmate who many supporters had hoped to save due to his existing intellectual disability was executed on Tuesday, Oct. 5, in the state of Missouri.
CNN’s Raja Razek and Paul LeBlanc reported that “Johnson — who was convicted of robbing a gas station and murdering three clerks nearly 27 years ago — was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. CT after the administration of a lethal injection.”
In the petition to save Johnson’s life submitted to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Johnson’s legal team argued that the 61-year-old had “presented overwhelming evidence” of an intellectual disability.
