The 61-year-old died from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
was put to death on Tuesday for using a hammer to kill three workers during a convenience store robbery in 1994.The Associated Press reported that Johnson silently mouthed words to relatives as the process began. His breathing became labored, he puffed out his cheeks, then swallowed hard. All movement stopped within seconds.Ernest Johnson was executed by lethal injection on October 5.In his written last statement dated Monday, Johnson said he was sorry and thanked his attorneys.
"I am sorry and have remorse for what I do," the statement said."I want to say that I love my family and friends, I am thankful of all that my lawer [sic] has done for me. They made me feel love as if I was family to them. "I love them all, for all the people that has prayed for me I thank them from the bottom of my. I love the Lord with all my heard and soul. If I am executed I no were I am going to heaven. Becaus [sic] I ask him to forgive me."
Johnson has been on death row since he was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder in the 1994 killings of Mary Bratcher, 46, Mable Scruggs, 57, and Fred Jones, 58. All three employees of a Casey's convenience store in Columbia were beaten with a claw hammer.
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