Missouri prisoner Lance Shockley had his final meal on Tuesday – peanut butter, oatmeal, water, and sports drinks.

Nearly seven hours later, the state gave Shockley a five gram lethal dose of pentobarbital.

Missouri carried out Shockley’s death sentence 20 years after the murder of State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham, Jr. Graham, who had been investigating Shockley’s role in a deadly drunk driving crash, was shot and killed outside his Carter County home.

On March 20, 2005, Graham was shot with a high-powered rifle in the back, chin, neck, face, and shoulder, severing his spinal cord and causing him to fall backward with enough force to fracture his skull and ribs. He died at the scene of the crime.

At 6:01 p.m., Shockley was given five grams of the legal drug. The curtains o

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