Missouri man executed for kidnapping and murdering 6-year-old girl
A man convicted of abducting and fatally beating a 6-year-old girl in Missouri two decades ago was executed on Tuesday evening. The execution took place after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to stop the proceedings, despite arguments that the man was mentally incompetent. Johnny Johnson, 45, was administered a lethal injection at a state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. CDT. He had been found guilty of the …