Missouri Executes First US Inmate Put to Death During COVID-19 Pandemic

Missouri Executes First US Inmate Put to Death During COVID-19 Pandemic
Walter Barton in a file photo. Missouri Department of Corrections/AP
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Missouri carried out the first execution in the country Tuesday since the start of the CCP virus outbreak in the United States.

Walter Barton was executed Tuesday by the state of Missouri at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC).