Missouri executes inmate for 1993 farm slaying

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Missouri executes inmate for 1993 farm slaying
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press | April 22, 2014 | Updated: April 23, 2014 12:43am

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri executed an inmate early Wednesday who was convicted of killing a farming couple in 1993.

William Rousan, 57, was scheduled to be executed at 12:01 a.m. He was declared dead at 12:10 a.m., Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman Mike O'Connell said.

The execution took place at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, which is just a few miles from the farm where the killings took place.

Prosecutors say Rousan, his teenage son Brent Rousan and William's brother Robert Rousan murdered Charlie and Grace Lewis on Sept. 21, 1993 as part of a plot to steal two of the couple's cows. Brent Rousan is serving life in prison without parole. Robert Rousan served seven years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.


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[nomorenomore08]

1. I'm anti-DP in general, but that doesn't mean I would've held a vigil for this guy.

Just because I'm philosophically opposed to executing people - in large part due to racial and class biases in the legal system - doesn't mean that some despicable people, on a moral level, don't deserve death.

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2. About 20 yrs too late. nt