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| Ernest Lee Johnson to be executed Tuesday for 1994 triple murder |
| By ksmu.org- Marshall Griffin |
| Published: 11/02/2015 |
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Barring clemency or any granted stays, Ernest Lee Johnson will become the seventh death row inmate executed in Missouri this year, and the 19th since the state resumed lethal injections two years ago. Johnson was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 murders of Mary Bratcher, Fred Jones and Mabel Scruggs. The three victims were all killed at a Casey’s General store in Columbia, where they were employed at the time. According to prosecutors, Johnson had planned to rob the convenience store. Police found the victims’ bodies inside the store, along with a bloody hammer. All three died from blunt force trauma, and one of the victims also had stab wounds. A screwdriver was found in a nearby field. After obtaining a search warrant for Johnson’s girlfriend’s house, Columbia police found a pair of tennis shoes with a logo that matched bloody footprints at the scene, along with cash, coin wrappers and a receipt from the convenience store. Read More. |
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