MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. - Time is running out for 44-year-old Lance Shockley.

He’s scheduled to die by lethal injection tomorrow at 6 p.m.--the first execution in the state for 2025. Shockley was convicted of the 2005 murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. Graham Jr. was ambushed and killed in his own home and three days later Shockley was arrested.

Shockley was found guilty of entering Graham's home, where he first shot the trooper from behind with a rifle, severing his spinal cord and paralyzing him before delivering fatal shotgun blasts to Graham's face and shoulder.

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A judge sentenced Shockley to death after a jury deadlocked. Advocates have pointed to ineffective legal counsel, juror misc

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