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US News: Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction and killing of 6-year-old girl

08/02/2023
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US News: Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction and killing of 6-year-old girl
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A man who abducted a 6-year-old Missouri girl and beat her to death at an abandoned factory decades ago was put to death Tuesday evening, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to block the lethal injection over arguments he was mentally incompetent.

Johnny Johnson, 45, received a a lethal dose of pentobarbital at a state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. CDT, authorities said. He was convicted of the July 2002 killing of Casey Williamson in the small St. Louis area suburb of Valley Park.

Johnson had expressed remorse in a brief handwritten statement released by the Department of Corrections hours before the execution.

“God Bless. Sorry to the people and family I hurt,” Johnson’s statement said.

The U.S. Supreme Court, with three justices dissenting, said earlier in an emailed statement that it was rejecting the request to stay the execution plans. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was joined by two other justices in the dissent.

In recent appeals, Johnson’s attorneys have said the inmate has had delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.

“The Court today paves the way to execute a man with documented mental illness before any court meaningfully investigates his competency to be executed,” Sotomayor and the other dissenting justices wrote in a statement when the stay was rejected by the wider court. “There is no moral victory in executing someone who believes Satan is killing him to bring about the end of the world.”

The girl’s disappearance from her hometown of Valley Park on July 26, 2002, had set off a frantic search before her body was ultimately found.

Casey’s mother had been best friends in childhood with Johnson’s older sister and had even helped babysit him. After Johnson attended a barbecue the night before the killing, Casey’s family let him sleep on a couch in the home where they also were sleeping.

In the morning, Johnson lured the girl — still in her nightgown — to the abandoned factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site, according to court documents. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free, they said. He then killed her with a brick and a large rock, then washed off in the nearby Meramec River. Johnson confessed that same day to the crimes, according to authorities.

FULL STORY: https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2023/08/01/missouri-man-executed-for-2002-abduction-and-killing-of-6-year-old-girl/

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