Missouri Ignores Pleas From Senators and Pope to Execute Intellectually Disabled Black Man Ernest Johnson

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Johnson had won previous stays of execution after his lawyers argued that a 2008 surgery to remove a brain tumor left him intellectually disabled and that a lethal injection would cause violent seizures before he died.
34% : On Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh also denied his final plea for a stay of execution by writ of certiorari, or full review of his case.
29% : Pope Francis and a number of U.S. senators and advocacy groups, including the ACLU of Missouri, Missouri Catholic Conference, Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, also unsuccessfully petitioned Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to stop the execution.

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