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   CNN — Kevin Johnson – who murdered a Kirkwood, Missouri, police   
   officer in 2005 but claimed racial bias in his prosecution – was   
   executed Tuesday night by lethal injection.   
      
   Johnson, 37, was pronounced dead at 7:40 p.m. CT. He didn’t give   
   a final statement, according to Missouri Department of   
   Corrections spokesperson Karen Pojmann.   
      
   The execution went ahead after the US Supreme Court denied his   
   request for a stay of execution. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson   
   and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, according to the court’s website.   
      
   On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court had denied Johnson’s   
   request for a stay after hearing arguments that racial   
   discrimination played a role in his prosecution.   
      
   Mary McEntee, the widow of Kirkwood Police Sgt. William McEntee,   
   said her husband was killed on his hands and knees in front of   
   people he dedicated his life to serve.   
      
   “When he left for work that day, we could not imagine that he   
   would be executed by someone he gave his life to protect,” she   
   said at a media briefing Tuesday evening. “Bill didn’t get to   
   fight for his life. He didn’t have the chance to be heard before   
   a jury, to decide whether he would live or die.”   
      
   She also thanked the prosecutors who put in the “hard work and   
   endless hours … for justice for Bill.”   
      
   The execution was not witnessed by Johnson’s 19-year-old   
   daughter, who had failed this month to get a federal court to   
   prevent the state from executing her father unless she was   
   permitted to be a witness. Missouri law bars people younger than   
   21 from witnessing the proceeding.   
      
   Pojmann said Johnson met with his daughter earlier Tuesday.   
      
   Arguments by Johnson and special prosecutor rejected   
   On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments in two   
   requests for a stay: one by Johnson, who was Black, and the   
   other by a special prosecutor appointed at the request of the   
   St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which secured   
   Johnson’s conviction on a first-degree murder charge and death   
   sentence for the murder of McEntee.   
      
   Both requests sought a stay so claims of racial prejudice could   
   be heard by the St. Louis County Circuit Court, which previously   
   denied a motion by the special prosecutor to vacate Johnson’s   
   conviction, saying there was not enough time before Johnson’s   
   scheduled execution to hold a hearing.   
      
   “There simply is nothing here that Johnson has not raised (and   
   that this Court has not rejected) before and, even if there   
   were, Johnson offers no basis for raising any new or re-packaged   
   versions of these oft-rejected claims at this late date,” the   
   Monday ruling said.   
      
   Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, also on Monday denied a request   
   for clemency from Johnson’s attorneys.   
      
   “Mr. Johnson has received every protection afforded by the   
   Missouri and United States Constitutions, and Mr. Johnson’s   
   conviction and sentence remain for his horrendous and callous   
   crime,” Parson said in a statement. “The State of Missouri will   
   carry out Mr. Johnson’s sentence according to the Court’s order   
   and deliver justice.”   
      
   A defense attorney for Johnson decried Monday’s state Supreme   
   Court ruling as a “complete disregard for the law in this case.”   
      
   “The Prosecutor in this case had requested that the Court stop   
   the execution based on the compelling evidence he uncovered this   
   past month establishing that Mr. Johnson was sentenced to death   
   because he is Black,” lawyer Shawn Nolan said in a statement.   
   “The Missouri Supreme Court unconscionably refused to simply   
   pause Mr. Johnson’s execution date so that the Prosecutor could   
   present this evidence to the lower court, who refused to   
   consider it in the first instance given the press of time.”   
      
   Claims of racial bias probed   
   Meantime, attorneys for Johnson argued in court records that   
   racial discrimination played a role in his prosecution, pointing   
   in their motion for a stay to “long-standing and pervasive   
   racial bias” in St. Louis County prosecutors’ “handling of this   
   case and other death-eligible prosecutions, including the   
   office’s decisions of which offense to charge, which penalty to   
   seek, and which jurors to strike.”   
      
   Per their request, the prosecuting attorney sought the death   
   penalty against four of five defendants tried for the killing of   
   a police officer while in office – all of them Black, while the   
   fifth was White. In the case with a White defendant, Johnson’s   
   request says, the prosecutor invited defense attorneys to submit   
   mitigation evidence that might persuade the office not to seek   
      
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