On Tuesday evening, when many of us are eating dinner or driving to a game or thinking about the next day, Lance Shockley will be executed. After 15 years on death row, this man will become Missouri’s latest victim of the death penalty. (“ Opinion: A chaplain’s plea for restoration over retribution in Missouri ,” Oct. 5.)

People around the world have called on Gov. Mike Kehoe to commute Shockley’s sentence to life imprisonment with parole. In fact, 65% of registered voters in Missouri want the sentence commuted and another 15% are undecided on the issue, according to a survey out of the University of California at Irvine.

This is an opportunity for the governor who claims to be pro-life to reclaim Lance Shockley from a death sentence and actually prove that he is pro-life. If he fail

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