A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother was scheduled to be executed Tuesday, barring a last-minute intervention.
Kevin Johnson's legal team doesn't deny that he killed Officer William McEntee in 2005, but contended in an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court that he was sentenced to death in part because he is Black. But in a 5-2 ruling late Monday, the state Supreme Court denied a stay.
It wasn't immediately clear if other appeals were planned. A message left early Tuesday with Johnson's lawyer was not immediately returned. Johnson saw officers arrive and awoke his 12-year-old brother, Joseph "Bam Bam" Long, who ran to a house next door. Once there, the boy, who suffered from a congenital heart defect, collapsed and began having a seizure.
The court filing said Johnson walked down the street and told his mother that McEntee "let my brother die" and "needs to see what it feels like to die." Though she told him, "That's not true," Johnson returned to the shooting scene and found McEntee alive, on his knees near the patrol car. Johnson shot McEntee in the back and in the head, killing him.
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