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A Death Row inmate who claimed he was a vampire enjoyed a burger feast hours before he was executed for the murder of a six-year-old girl.
Johnny Johnson, 45, was killed via lethal injection at 7:33pm local time (12:33am UK time) on Tuesday (August 1) for the murder of Casey Williamson in 2002, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Before he was killed, Johnson enjoyed a simple meal of a burger, curly fries and a strawberry milkshake. He also expressed remorse in a brief handwritten statement released by the Department of Corrections.
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In his statement he said: "God Bless. Sorry to the people and family I hurt."
Cassandra 'Casey' Williamson's disappearance from her hometown of Valley Park on July 26, 2002, had set off a frantic search before her body was ultimately found.
Casey's mother had been best friends in childhood with Johnson's older sister and had even helped babysit him.
After Johnson attended a barbecue the night before the killing, Casey's family let him sleep on a couch in the home where they also were sleeping.
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In the morning, Johnson lured the girl – still in her nightgown – to an abandoned factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site, according to court documents.
When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free, the documents said.
He then killed her with a brick and a large rock, then washed off in the nearby Meramec River. Johnson confessed that same day to the crimes, according to authorities.
After a search involving first responders and volunteers, Casey's body was found in a pit less than a mile from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
At Johnson's trial, defence lawyers had presented testimony showing that their client – an ex-convict who had been released from a state psychiatric facility six months before the crime – had stopped taking his schizophrenia medication and was acting strangely in the days before the slaying.
His execution was the sixteenth in the U.S. this year. In addition to three previous executions in Missouri, five have been conducted in Texas, four in Florida, two in Oklahoma and one in Alabama. There were 18 executions in six U.S. states last year.
If you or somebody you know has been affected by this story, contact Victim Support for free, confidential advice on 08 08 16 89 111 or visit their website, www.victimsupport.org.uk.
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