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In the modern era, the death penalty has faced legal challenges over racial bias as well as the method used to kill. While the majority of people executed since have been white , a disproportionate number have been black of those executed, while being only 13 percent of the population.
Latinos and other races make up the remaining. The first execution since was carried out by a firing squad. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday declined to grant clemency to death row inmate Ernest Johnson, despite requests for mercy from the pope , two federal lawmakers and thousands of petition signers. Johnson, 61, was convicted of killing three convenience store workers during a closing-time robbery in He is scheduled to die by injection at 6 p.
Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre, about 50 miles south of St. It wasn't the first time a pope has sought to intervene in a Missouri execution. In , during his visit to St. Mel Carnahan to grant clemency to Darrell Mease just weeks before Mease was scheduled to be put to death for a triple killing. In , Pope Francis changed church teaching to say capital punishment can never be sanctioned because it constitutes an "attack" on human dignity. Catholic leaders have been outspoken opponents of the death penalty in many states.
Weiss said executing Johnson would violate the Eighth Amendment to the U. Constitution, which prohibits executing intellectually disabled people.
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