Walter Barton put to death in Missouri for 1991 murder, the first US execution during the ...
BONNE TERRE, Mo. — A Missouri man was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday for fatally stabbing an 81-year-old woman nearly three decades ago, the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton, 64, had long maintained he was innocent of killing Gladys Kuehler, and his case was tied up for years due to appeals, mistrials and two overturned convictions. His fate was sealed when neither the courts nor Gov. Mike Parson intervened. Barton breathed heavily five times after the lethal drug entered his body ...
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