03-26-2014, 01:36 PM
MISSOURI EXECUTES THIRD INMATE THIS YEAR:
RAPIST AND MURDERER LETHALLY INJECTED
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Jeffrey Ferguson,59, was executed on 26 March 2014.
He was pronounced dead at 12:11 a.m local time (0511 GMT) at a state prison in Bonne Terre, said Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety. Ferguson was given a lethal injection of 5 grams of pentobarbital, a fast-acting barbiturate at 12:01 a.m. local time, O'Connell said.
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Kelli Hall, murder victim. RIP.
"She was 17 years old. She had her life in front of her," Jim Hall, victim Kelli Hall's father, told reporters after the execution as he choked back tears. "It's been a very long 25 years waiting for this execution. Hopefully we can now move forward."
According to prosecutors, Ferguson had been out drinking at a bar with a friend and then went to meet another friend at the gas station where Hall was ending her shift. Hall was checking the fuel levels in the station tanks when a witness saw her being forced into the back seat of a vehicle by a white male.
The next day a maintenance worker found Hall's coat and clothes discarded at the side of the road. A farmer later found her battered and frozen body hidden in a machinery shed.
Before being put to death, Ferguson stuck his tongue out and wiggled it toward his relatives. "At this point in my life, I believe that I am the best man that I've ever been," Ferguson said in a final statement. "I'm sorry to have to be the cause that brings you all into this dark business of execution."
Ferguson is one of a group of Missouri inmates who sued state officials in 2012 in a challenge to the constitutionality of the state's execution protocols. The case is set for trial on Sept. 15.
Story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26...32670.html
RAPIST AND MURDERER LETHALLY INJECTED
Jeffrey Ferguson,59, was executed on 26 March 2014.
He was pronounced dead at 12:11 a.m local time (0511 GMT) at a state prison in Bonne Terre, said Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety. Ferguson was given a lethal injection of 5 grams of pentobarbital, a fast-acting barbiturate at 12:01 a.m. local time, O'Connell said.
Kelli Hall, murder victim. RIP.
"She was 17 years old. She had her life in front of her," Jim Hall, victim Kelli Hall's father, told reporters after the execution as he choked back tears. "It's been a very long 25 years waiting for this execution. Hopefully we can now move forward."
According to prosecutors, Ferguson had been out drinking at a bar with a friend and then went to meet another friend at the gas station where Hall was ending her shift. Hall was checking the fuel levels in the station tanks when a witness saw her being forced into the back seat of a vehicle by a white male.
The next day a maintenance worker found Hall's coat and clothes discarded at the side of the road. A farmer later found her battered and frozen body hidden in a machinery shed.
Before being put to death, Ferguson stuck his tongue out and wiggled it toward his relatives. "At this point in my life, I believe that I am the best man that I've ever been," Ferguson said in a final statement. "I'm sorry to have to be the cause that brings you all into this dark business of execution."
Ferguson is one of a group of Missouri inmates who sued state officials in 2012 in a challenge to the constitutionality of the state's execution protocols. The case is set for trial on Sept. 15.
Story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26...32670.html