On Oct. 14, Lance Shockley is scheduled to be executed, but petitioners are still fighting for his clemency. Shockley was convicted for the 2005 murder of Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Graham, Jr., following a trial where a judge pronounced his sentence after a jury deadlocked on terms of his punishment.

Shockley’s representatives are still seeking clemency on procedural grounds and asking Gov. Mike Kehoe for a stay of execution.

The crime

In Mar. 2005, Graham was shot and fatally killed by an assailant outside his home in Van Buren, Missouri. Graham was the presiding investigative officer of a drunk driving incident involving Shockley, where the passenger of his vehicle, Jeff Kohler, was killed.

The state theorized that Shockley killed Graham to stop the car accident investigation

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