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Missouri executes a man for killing four people. He insisted that he was 1,800 miles away during the crime.

2023-02-08T13:56:54.513Z


Raheem Taylor, 58, was convicted of killing his partner and her three young children. This is the fifth execution in the country so far this year. Activists pleaded for his innocence.


By Jim Salter —

The Associated Press

A Missouri man convicted of killing his partner and her three young children was executed Tuesday despite declaring he was in another state when the killings took place.

Raheem Taylor, 58, was the third Missouri inmate on death row since November at Bonne Terre State Prison.

It was the country's fifth execution this year, following one earlier in Missouri, two in Texas and one in Oklahoma.

All were by lethal injection.

Taylor kicked her feet as the 5 grams of pentobarbital was administered, then took five or six deep breaths before she stopped moving.

In a final statement, Taylor said that Muslims do not die, but "live eternally in the hearts of our family and friends."

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“Death is not your enemy, it is your destiny.

I hope to meet her.

Peace!” she wrote in the statement.

Raheem Taylor. Missouri Department of Corrections via AP

Taylor, who previously went by Leonard, long maintained he was in California when his partner Angela Rowe, 10-year-old daughter Alexus Conley, 6-year-old daughter AcQreya Conley, and 5-year-old son Tyrese Conley were killed in 2004. Among its supporters were the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), nearly three dozen religious and civil rights groups, and the Midwest Innocence Project.

But Taylor's claims of innocence were denied time and time again.

St. Louis County District Attorney Wesley Bell, a Democrat, last week denied Taylor's request to appear before a judge, saying "the facts are not there to support a credible case of innocence."

Republican Gov. Mike Parson refused to grant clemency Monday, the same day a request for a stay was denied by the state Supreme Court.

On Tuesday,

the country's Supreme Court refused to intervene.

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Gerauan Rowe, Angela Rowe's sister, said after the execution that moving on remains difficult, more than 18 years after losing her sister, nieces and nephew.

"I'm at a point in my life where I'm okay, but I'm not," he said.

But I know that justice has been done.

It's a little hard trying to move on, but I think I can do it," she added.

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There is no doubt that Taylor was not in Missouri when the bodies were found.

What is not known for certain is when the family was killed.

Taylor and Angela Rowe lived with the children in a home in the St. Louis suburb of Jennings, and he boarded a flight to California on November 26, 2004.

On December 3, 2004, police were dispatched to Jennings' home after concerned relatives said they had not heard from Rowe.

The agents found her body and those of her children.

All four had been shot.

The coroner's initial conclusion was that the murders probably occurred within days of the discovery of the bodies, when Taylor was in California.

But at Taylor's trial, coroner Phillip Burch said the murders could have occurred two to three weeks before the bodies were discovered.

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Taylor's attorney, Kent Gipson, said several people, including Rowe's relatives and a neighbor, saw Rowe alive in the days after Taylor left St. Louis.

Meanwhile, Taylor's daughter in California, Deja Taylor, claimed in a court filing that she and her father called Angela Rowe and one of the children during her visit.

Deja Taylor's mother and sister corroborated her story.

Bob McCulloch, who was the St. Louis County prosecutor-elect at the time of the slayings, said Taylor's not guilty plea was "baloney" and that the alibis provided by his daughter and her relatives were "completely fabricated." .

McCulloch told The Associated Press news agency that evidence suggested Rowe and the children were killed on the night of Nov. 22 or Nov. 23, at a time when Taylor was still in St. Louis.

And he pointed out that Rowe used to make about 70 calls or send text messages a day.

As of November 23, she hasn't made any.

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Meanwhile, investigators found DNA from Rowe's blood on Taylor's glasses when he was arrested, and a relative who was taking him to the airport saw him throw a gun down the drain, and his brother told police Taylor admitted to the attack. crime, McCulloch said.

Authorities believe Taylor shot Rowe during a violent argument and then killed the children because they were witnesses.

The three recent executions in Missouri have taken place in cases that occurred in St. Louis County.

Kevin Johnson was executed in November for killing a police officer in 2005. Amber McLaughlin was executed on January 3 for killing a woman in 2003, believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the United States.

Source: telemundo

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