Ernest Lee Johnson executed in Missouri despite pleas from Pope

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Weis said the death sentence would violate the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibits the execution of the intellectually disabled.
41% : Ernest Johnson has been incarcerated for 34 years and evaded the death penalty three times.
41% : Johnson previously asked that his execution be carried out by firing squad, but Missouri doesn't allow that method of execution.
37% : 'Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence and state-sanctioned murder in black and brown communities.'
23% : 'Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence and state-sanctioned murder in black and brown communities,' wrote Representatives Cori Bush and Emmanuel Cleaver II'

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