Kevin “KJ” Johnson, a Black youth, is scheduled for execution in Missouri on November 29, 2022 for the 2005 murder of a white Kirkwood police officer, William McEntee, a crime committed when he was 19 years old. Despite many erroneous and unfair court rulings, grossly ineffective counsel, and racist prosecutorial policies, KJ remains on Missouri’s death row.

Learn more about Kevin Johnson and do more to help him with Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Petition signatures gathered on this petition will be combined and presented with those gathered by MADP on their petition.

In continuing to schedule executions, Missouri makes itself an outlier in its use of the death penalty. In fact, since the pandemic began, Missouri has been one of only a handful of states that has carried out an execution since 2020.

The majority of other states are on a downward trend of executions, and increasingly, states are abolishing the practice altogether, including the southern state of Virginia, which repealed its death penalty law in 2021.

Please sign the petition asking Governor Mike Parson to do everything within his power to stop this execution, including issuing a stay, and seeking a path to clemency in the case.

Petitions will be delivered on your behalf on Monday, November 28, 2022.