BONNE TERRE, Mo. (KFVS) - Lance Shockley has died by lethal injection, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

It happened sometime after 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14 in the death chamber at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

It was Missouri’s first execution of the year--the first under Governor Mike Kehoe’s tenure.

Watch our LIVE coverage at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre below:

Shockley was on death row for the shooting death of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl DeWayne Graham Jr.

Graham was gunned down outside his Van Buren home back in 2005.

At the time, Graham was investigating Shockley’s involvement in a deadly drunk driving crash.

During his murder trial in 2009, prosecutors told jurors that Shockley went to Graham’s hom

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