BONNE TERRE, Mo., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Missouri executed condemned killer Marlin Gray by lethal injection Wednesday for the 1991 murders of two young sisters who were thrown off a bridge.
Gray, 38, was convicted as an accomplice in the robbery-murder of Julie and Robin Kerry, then 20 and 19. Their cousin was forced to jump from the Mississippi River bridge but survived the fall.
Gray, who maintained his innocence until the end, was pronounced dead at 12:07 a.m. at the Eastern Reception and Diagnostic Correctional Center, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He became the fifth inmate executed by lethal injection in Missouri this year and 66th since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1989.
Daniel Winfrey, who was 15 at the time of the killings, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and rape and is serving a 30-year sentence. Co-defendant Reginald Clemons is on death row and the Missouri Supreme Court reduced the death sentence of Antonio Richardson to life in prison.
