By The opinion
Jun 11, 2024, 11:37 PM EDT
Missouri executed death row inmate David Hosier by lethal injection on Tuesday, making it the second execution in the state this year and the seventh in the country, after Governor Mike Parson denied a request for clemency.
Hosier, 69, was convicted in the 2009 shooting death of his ex-lover, Angela Gilpin. The woman was allegedly separated from her husband, but she had decided to make her marriage work and she broke up with Hosier, which angered him, according to court records.
A neighbor found the bodies of Gilpin and her husband Rodney in the doorway of their apartment in the early morning hours of September 28, 2009.
Hosier, 69, maintained his innocence in the double murder for which he was sentenced to death. He filed a petition for clemency following multiple previous appeals, including one that the Missouri Supreme Court rejected five years ago when it unanimously upheld the state’s decision to execute him.
However, commuting Hosier’s sentence or stopping his execution was a decision for the governor, and some legislators had asked Parson in recent days to spare his life, something that ultimately did not happen.
Hosier was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. local time at the Eastern Correctional, Diagnostic and Reception Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, a corrections spokesperson said in a statement.
Hosier was placed on Missouri’s death row in 2013 after being convicted of capital murder in the 2009 deaths of Angela Gilpin and Rodney Gilpin at their home in Jefferson City.
The man was therefore found guilty of shooting the Gilpins to death during an armed robbery, after previously having been in a romantic relationship with Angela Gilpin. She and her husband were murdered approximately a month after Angela Gilpin ended the affair with Hosier.
“David Hosier stole Mrs. Angela Gilpin’s life because he couldn’t accept it when she ended their romantic relationship. “He shows no remorse for his senseless violence,” Parson said, announcing that Hosier’s clemency petition was denied.
His defense assures that Hosier He always maintained that he didn’t do it, pointing to the lack of DNA evidence or anything linking him to the crime scene. She recently reiterated her innocence, telling the Kansas City Star that she felt bad that Gilpin and her husband were murdered, but: “You can’t show remorse for something you didn’t do.”
Despite this, the man already had a criminal record and owned firearms when the Gilpins were murdered, and after the murders, Angela Gilpin’s purse was discovered to contain a request for a protective order against him, as well as a statement that He said he feared Hosier might shoot him.
Despite this, in his last request for clemency, The defense focused primarily on Hosier’s personal life. Much of the petition focused on a stroke Hosier suffered in 2007. which attorneys say left him with lasting brain damage, as well as in the 1971 murder of his father, an Indiana State Police sergeant, which his defense characterized as a traumatic event that fueled his mental state.
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