Missouri Executes Christopher Collings for 9-Year-Old's Murder After Clemency Denied
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Christopher Leroy Collings is set to be executed in Missouri for the 2007 rape and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford. Despite last-minute appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court and Missouri Governor Michael Parson denied clemency, with the governor stating that justice must be served for the "horrendous and callous crime." Collings' execution will be the 23rd in the U.S. this year. Rowan's family, while supportive of the death penalty, expressed that lethal injection is too lenient for Collings' crime.
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- Missouri man facing execution in the sexual assault and strangling of a 9-year-old girl The Associated Press
- Gov. Parson, SCOTUS decline to stop execution of Christopher Collings, set for Tuesday Kansas City Star
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