Missouri Is Set Execute Ernest Johnson, Despite Lawmakers and the Pope Begging the Governor Not To
by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. from on (#5QB12)
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...