Its principles Missouri State proceeded to implementation man where had been convicted three times at the end of the sentences for double murder committed a quarter of a century ago.
Carman Deck56 years old, performed by lethal injection at 18:10 yesterday Tuesday (local time; at 02:10 today Greek time) in Bon Ter prison, in the central US, explained the state prison administration.
On Monday, the governor of Missouri, the Mike Parsonrefused to show leniency and commute his sentence to life in prison, as activists in the state demanded.
«Tonight, justice was doneCommented the Republican governor in a statement after the execution, saying that his thoughts are with his relatives.innocent victims of Carman Deck’s brutal violence».
The US Supreme Court as well dismissed the last appeal on Monday of his lawyers.
This is him 5th death sentence executed in the USA since January 1.
In 1996, Carman Deck had murdered an elderly couple, James and Zelma Long, in a St. Louis suburb. He pleaded guilty in his trial.
According to the newspaper Kansas City Star, whose columnists had advocated a change in his sentence, the state Supreme Court overturned the verdict in his first trial in 2002 because his attorneys did not properly defend him. They mainly failed to expose his difficult childhood with foster families.
The US Supreme Court canceled the second trial in 2005where the accused had presented himself with chains on the legs, wrists and bodysomething he judged to have influenced the jurors.
In 2008, he was sentenced to death in the third trial, but the sentence was overturned in 2017 by a federal judge, on the grounds that not all available evidence was presented to the jury. However, the Court of Appeals upheld the sentence in 2020, a decision that was later approved by the state Supreme Court.
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