prison in Bonne Terre after murdering three shop workers in a 1994 robbery. The 61-year-old death row inmate was given a lethal injection for killing his three victims - Mary Bratcher, 46, Mable Scruggs, 57, and Fred Jones, 58 - with a claw hammer in Columbia 27 years ago.
As is tradition before executions in the US, Johnson was also given his special last meal. The tradition of requested last meals in the US is thought to have started in Texas in 1924.
It has been revealed that Johnson chose to gorge on a greasy mega meal in his final hours.As an opener, the triple murder convict tucked into two hearty double bacon cheeseburgers, according to The Kansas City Star.
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