Missouri Is Set Execute Ernest Johnson, Despite Lawmakers and the Pope Begging the Governor Not To
In 1995, Ernest Lee Johnson was convicted in the horrific killing of three Missouri convenience store employees-46-year-old Mary Bratcher, 57-year-old Mable Scruggs, and 58-year-old Fred Jones-with a claw hammer. Johnson's lawyers have argued that in 2008 an operation on a brain tumor left him with a fifth of his...