The State of Missouri Just Murdered A Disabled Black Man
5 min readOct 10, 2021
The cruel inhumanity of the death penalty
On October 5th, 2021, a 61-year-old mentally disabled man named Ernest Lee Johnson was executed. He was convicted of killing three people during a 1994 convenience store robbery in Columbia, Missouri, after which he was placed in a Bonne Terre prison.
