Ernest Johnson: Last News

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Ernest Johnson, 61, has less than a month to live.He will die at 6pm on November 3, strapped to a gurney in Missouri while a lethal concoction of drugs is pumped into his veins.The murderer is set to be the seventh person executed in the US this year, but what makes his case particularly strange is the killer has fought to be executed by firing squad instead, and has been sentenced to death three times for the same crime.In 1994, Johnson went to a convenience store and bought a bottle of beer and some cigarettes.He returned later and asked the cashier who would be working that night.

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.

death row who wants to be killed by a firing squad instead of a lethal injection has seen his final request refused by the US Supreme Court.Ernest Johnson was convicted for the brutal murders of three shop workers whilst robbing a store in Missouri, in 1994.The killer says he doesn’t want lethal injection because it could cause him to have painful seizures.This is because the drug used in the execution, pentobarbital, could clash with a benign tumour he has on his brain, LADbible reports.Officials who turned down Johnson’s request said it was because of procedural issues.The convict wanted to be executed with nitrogen gas at first, with the Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit allowing it.But in a different case in 2019, the Supreme Court