Let Lance Live!

Lance Shockley, 48, is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, Oct. 14, at 6pm at the Bonne Terre, Mo., Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center. Gove. Mike Kehoe has denied clemency to Shockley.

Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty urges people to contact the governor, plea for clemency, and call for Shockley to be allowed his choice of a spiritual advisor at the execution—a choice the law provides for but the Missouri Department of Corrections is blocking. “We are not giving up!” says Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty in an email this afternoon.

Please call Gov. Kehoe at 573-751-3222 or fax him at 573-751-1495. Among the state-wide vigils tomorrow will be the gathering opposing Shockley’s execution at 5pm at 39^th and Troost in KC, Mo.

Shockley faces execution by lethal injection in connection with the 2005 murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl DeWayne Graham, Jr. Reports on the case note that anti-death-penalty advocates say Shockley’s trial was marred with errors and that the only evidence against him was circumstantial.

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