Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life

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Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life
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“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

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How much of this was the state just wishing they didn't have to pay for his life imprisonment?

Zero percent. It spent more money executing him than it would have keeping him in prison.