A Missouri man who was convicted of stabbing to death an elderly trailer park manager three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, marking the first execution in the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Walter Barton, 64, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. local time (0000 GMT) at Missouri’s death chamber in Bonne Terre for the 1991 murder of Gladys Kuehler, 81.
