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A Missouri man who was convicted of fatally shooting a state trooper 20 years ago was executed Tuesday.

Lance Shockley, 48, died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

Shockley, who long maintained his innocence, was convicted of killing Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. in March 2005. Prosecutors said he waited for hours near Graham’s home in Van Buren before shooting him first with a rifle, then with a shotgun when the trooper exited his patrol vehicle.

In the death chamber, Shockley’s head was elevated on a pillow. He lifted his head and spoke to loved ones in the witness room to his left. A woman appeared to try to converse with him through the soundproof

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