Christopher Leroy Collings, 49, was executed in Missouri for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, dying by lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional Center. Collings, the 23rd inmate executed in the U.S. this year, expressed remorse in a final statement, while Governor Michael Parson affirmed the justice of his sentence. Collings kidnapped and killed Rowan Ford in 2007, denying intent to kill but being found guilty of rape and murder, with his brain abnormality and childhood abuse cited in his unsuccessful clemency petition.
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