{"id":133167,"date":"2024-12-04T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133167"},"modified":"2024-12-04T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T02:49:05","slug":"missouri-executes-a-man-for-sexually-assaulting-and-strangling-a-9-year-old-girl-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133167","title":{"rendered":"Missouri executes a man for sexually assaulting and strangling a 9-year-old girl in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Rowan Ford knew <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/missouri-execution-date-set-christopher-collings-e81def9fe66d34cab516b7945be057b5\">Christopher Collings<\/a><\/span> as \u201cUncle Chris\u201d after he spent several months living with her family. On Tuesday, Collings was executed for sexually assaulting and killing the child, then dumping her body in a sinkhole outside a small Missouri town.<\/p>\n<p>Collings, 49, was put to death with a single dose of pentobarbital on Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri. The execution was the 23rd in the U.S. this year and the fourth in Missouri. Only Alabama with six and Texas with five have performed more executions in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Collings spoke with a spiritual adviser who was at his side as the process began. Shortly thereafter, the inmate appeared to breathe heavily and swallow hard. After a few seconds, all movement stopped. He was officially declared dead nine minutes after the injection.<\/p>\n<p>Collings\u2019 fate was sealed Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court turned aside an appeal and Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied clemency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight or wrong I accept this situation for what it is,\u201d Collings said in a written final statement. \u201cTo anyone that I have hurt in this life I am sorry. I hope that you are able to get closure and move on.\u201d He added, \u201cI hope to see you in heaven one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parson, in a statement, said he hopes that \u201call those who knew and loved Rowan may find peace in knowing that justice has been done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowan was a fourth-grader described by teachers at Collings\u2019 trial as a hard-working and happy student, a lover of Barbie who had her room painted pink. Collings was a friend of Rowan\u2019s stepfather, David Spears, and lived for several months in 2007 at the home Rowan shared with her mother, Colleen Munson, and Spears. Collings sometimes helped Rowan with her homework.<\/p>\n<p>Collings told authorities that he drank heavily and smoked marijuana with Spears and another man in the hours before the attack on Rowan, according to court records. Collings said he picked up the still-sleeping child from her bed, took her to the camper where he lived, and assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>Collings planned to take Rowan back home, leading her outside the camper facing away from him so that she couldn\u2019t identify him, he said in his confession. But when moonlight lit up the darkness, Rowan was able to see Collings, he told police. He said he \u201cfreaked out,\u201d grabbed a rope from a nearby pickup truck, and strangled her.<\/p>\n<p>Munson returned home from work at 9 a.m. on Nov. 3 and was alarmed when she couldn\u2019t find Rowan, walking the neighborhood looking for her. Court records said Spears insisted Rowan was at a friend\u2019s house. But when Rowan failed to return home by the afternoon, the mother called the police, prompting a massive search.<\/p>\n<p>Collings, Spears and the third man became the focus of police attention because they were the last people seen at Rowan\u2019s home. Collings confessed to the crime and told police that after killing Rowan, he took the body to a sinkhole. He burned the rope used in the attack, along with the clothes he was wearing and his blood-stained mattress, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents and the clemency petition said Spears also implicated himself in the crimes. A transcript of Spears\u2019 statement to police, cited in the clemency petition, said Spears told police that Collings handed him a cord and Spears killed Rowan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI choke her with it. I realize she\u2019s gone. She\u2019s &#8230; she\u2019s really gone,\u201d Spears said, according to the transcript. Meanwhile, court documents said it was Spears who led authorities to the sinkhole where the body was found.<\/p>\n<p>But Spears was allowed to plead to lesser charges. It wasn\u2019t clear why. Prosecutors at the original trial didn\u2019t respond to messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>Spears served more than seven years in prison before being released in 2015. No phone listing for him could be found.<\/p>\n<p>Collings\u2019 attorney, Jeremy Weis, said the inmate was a loving father and a changed man in prison and didn\u2019t deserve to die, despite his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe share Chris\u2019s desire that his death will provide a measure of closure for the victim\u2019s family and that the people hurt by him will be able to carry on,\u201d Weis said in a statement. \u201cWhat occurred today, though, was an act of vengeance, but it will not define Chris, nor will it be how we remember him.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>__<\/h2>\n<p>The last name of the victim\u2019s mother has been corrected to Munson, not Spears.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/missouri-execution-christopher-collings-f5a027c86c53725556a5a66751abd36d\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BONNE TERRE, Mo. 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