Missouri judge denies request from 19-year-old to witness her father's execution

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Kevin Johnson was sentenced to death for the 2005 killing of a Kirkwood, MO police officer. Johnson was 19 at the time he committed the crime, the same age his daughter, Khorry Ramey, is now.

"I'm heartbroken that I won't be able to be with my dad in his last moments," Ramey told NBC News. She said that her father "has worked very hard to rehabilitate himself in prison. I pray that [Gov. Mike] Parson will give my dad clemency."

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The plaintiffs argue that prohibiting Ramey from attending the execution is unconstitutional and "illustrates the irrationality" of sentencing someone to death prior to their 21st birthday but preventing those under 21 from attending executions.

"I am my dad's closest living relative and he is mine, other than my baby son," Ramey told the outlet. "If my dad were dying in the hospital, I would stick by his side and hold his hand, praying until his death."

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more at https://www.insider.com/missouri-blocks-daughter-fathers-execution-2022-11

So many facets come into play here. It's a sorrowful situation in every way.

[marble falls]

1. Surreal and ridiculous. Death to the death penalty.

[Celerity]

2. The death penalty's a barbarous relic. Its continued existence in the US is a crime in and of itself

the crime of state-sanctioned premeditated murder.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Where are the Libertarians when you need them?

Talk about our of control power in the hands of the state. The death penalty is the perfect example of that.

Do not murder our murdering cops or we will murder you. Talk about coerced compliance.

[Zeitghost]

5. I have seen no evidence

That Sergeant William McEntee ever murdered anyone.

[oioioi]

6. no, but...

Johnson's supporters contend his story starts several years before, when childhood abuse and neglect in what was then an impoverished neighborhood, Meacham Park, forged a young mind that was moments away from falling off an edge — and that the death of Johnson's 12-year-old brother Joseph "Bam Bam" Long earlier that day tipped him over it. Bam Bam suffered a seizure as police searched for Johnson, who watched as McEntee barred his mother from entering the house to aid her dying son.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/kevin-johnson-has-grappled-with-his-guilt-for-17-years-but-he-doesnt-want-to-die-38808265

[Zeitghost]

4. Perhaps

She should ask the the three children of Sergeant William McEntee who were not given the opportunity to hold their fathers hand as he died in his patrol car after being ambushed by her father.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind...

A policy of revenge will lead to counterretaliations rather than any positive outcome.

[GreenWave]

8. To show you how wrong it is to kill someone

We will plot to kill you.

Signed

your friend,

the state