Missouri （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmate, 56, who 殺人d married couple during 強盗 at their 田舎の home 25 years ago is 遂行する／発効させるd by lethal 注射: 殺し屋 enjoyed final meal of steak and shrimp and used his final words to call for 'world peace'

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A Missouri man who killed a couple during a 強盗 at their 田舎の home more than a ４半期/4分の1 of a century ago was put to death Tuesday - the fifth person to be 遂行する／発効させるd in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs this year.

Carman Deck, 56, died by 注射 at the 明言する／公表する 刑務所，拘置所 in Bonne Terre. He was pronounced dead at 6.10pm on May 3.?

His 運命／宿命 was 調印（する）d a day earlier when neither the US 最高裁判所 nor 共和国の／共和党の 知事 マイク Parson stepped in to 停止（させる） the 死刑執行.

In a 声明, the 知事 said: 'Mr. Deck has received 予定 過程, and three separate 陪審／陪審員団s of his peers have recommended 宣告，判決s of death for the 残虐な 殺人s he committed. The 明言する／公表する of Missouri will carry out Mr. Deck’s 宣告，判決 によれば the 法廷，裁判所’s order and 配達する 司法（官）,' によれば KMOV.?

Deck's death 宣告，判決 was overturned three times before for procedural 問題／発行するs.

Deck enjoyed a last meal of steak and shrimp, によれば KMOV, before 存在 注入するd with five grams of?pentobarbital. He 報道によれば mouthed a few inaudible words, then puffed out a couple of breaths before all movement stopped, the 過程 継続している just a few seconds.

In a written 声明, Deck wrote: 'My hope is that one day the world will find peace and that we all will learn to be 肉親，親類d and loving to one another. We all are a part of this 旅行 through life, connected in every way. Please give love, show love, BE LOVE!'

The couple's children and grandchildren were 報道によれば 現在の during his 死刑執行. Deck had been friends with on e of the couple's grandchildren and so knew they kept money at home.

Carman Deck, 56, died by 注射 at the 明言する／公表する 刑務所，拘置所 in Bonne Terre. He was pronounced dead at 6.10pm on May 3

Deck killed James and Zelma Long, 69 and 67, (pictured) in their De Soto home in 1996. Deck and his sister entered the home after pretending to need directions, where they then robbed the couple and 発射 them 死刑執行-style after 教えるing them to lay facedown on their bed

The couple's grandson knew Deck. Their children and grandchildren were 現在の his 死刑執行. It is 不明瞭な if that 明確な／細部 grandson was in 出席?

Parson, in a 声明, said the couple killed, James and Zelma Long, 69 and 67, 'were innocent 犠牲者s of Carman Deck's heinous 暴力／激しさ. Tonight, 司法（官） was served.'

Deck's own 弁護士／代理人／検事s and 地元の 行動主義者s 非難するd the death 宣告，判決, with Missourians for 代案／選択肢s to the Death 刑罰，罰則's Michelle Smith 明言する／公表するing: 'We feel like the 死刑 is not something a caring, moral, civilized society would 追求する. 明白に, Mr. Deck did commit this 罪，犯罪. We send our 弔慰s and grief for the family 同様に, but the 死刑 does not solve anything.'

Just four other people have been 遂行する／発効させるd in the US in 2022 - Donald Anthony 認める and Gilbert Ray Postelle in Oklahoma, Matthew Reeves in Alabama and Carl Wayne Buntion last month in Texas. Eleven people were 遂行する／発効させるd in the US last year, the fewest since 1988.

法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs show that Deck, of the St. Louis area, was a friend of the grandson of the Longs, who lived in De Soto, about 45 miles 南西 of St. Louis. He knew the couple kept a 安全な in their home.

In a written 声明, Deck wrote: 'My hope is that one day the world will find peace and that we all will learn to be 肉親，親類d and loving to one another. We all are a part of this 旅行 through life, connected in every way. Please give love, show love, BE LOVE!'

In July 1996, Deck and his sister stopped at the home under the guise of asking directions. Deck wasn't surprised the couple let them in.

'They're country folks,' Deck told a 探偵，刑事, によれば 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs. 'They always do.'

Once inside, Deck pulled a gun from his waistband. At Deck's 命令（する）, Zelma Long opened the 安全な and 除去するd 宝石類, then got $200 from her purse and more money hidden in a canister.

Deck ordered the couple to 嘘（をつく） on their stomachs on their bed. 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs said Deck stood there for 10 minutes deciding what to do, then 発射 James Long twice in the 長，率いる 死刑執行-style before doing the same thing to Zelma.

A tip 警報d police to Deck, and he was 逮捕（する）d later that night outside his sister?Tonia Cummings' apartment building in St. Louis 郡. The decorative tin canister from the Long home was on the floorboard of his car.

His sister Tonia Cummings (pictured) is serving a 70-year 宣告，判決 at?at Chillicothe Correctional 中心 - was with him when the 殺人s happened

Cummings is serving a 70-year 宣告，判決 for her 役割 in the 殺人 at?Chillicothe Correctional 中心. She was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of?two counts of second-degree 殺人,?武装した 犯罪の 活動／戦闘, and?first-degree 押し込み強盗 and first-degree 強盗, Fox 2 報告（する）／憶測d.?

検察官，検事s said Deck later gave a 十分な account of the 殺人，大当りs in oral, written and audiotaped 声明s. He was 宣告，判決d to death in 1998, but the Missouri 最高裁判所 投げ上げる／ボディチェックするd the 宣告，判決 予定 to errors by Deck's 裁判，公判 lawyer.

The US 最高裁判所 threw out his second 宣告，判決 in 2005, 特記する／引用するing the prejudice 原因（となる）d by Deck 存在 shackled in 前線 of the 宣告，判決ing 陪審／陪審員団.

He was 宣告，判決d to death for a third time in 2008. Nine years later, US 地区 裁判官 Catherine Perry 決定するd that '相当な' 証拠 arguing against the 死刑 in Deck's first two 刑罰，罰則 段階s was unavailable for the third because 証言，証人／目撃するs had died, couldn't be 設立する or 拒絶する／低下するd to 協力する.

In October 2020, a three-裁判官 パネル盤 of the 8th US 回路・連盟 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告s 回復するd the 死刑, 判決，裁定 that Deck should have raised his 関心 first in 明言する／公表する 法廷，裁判所, not 連邦の 法廷，裁判所. 控訴，上告s of that 判決，裁定 were 不成功の.

Deck (pictured in 2001 and 1998, それぞれ) did not について言及する the 犠牲者s in his last words

His lawyer とじ込み／提出するd a 温和／情状酌量 嘆願（書）, but the 知事 nor the 最高裁判所 停止（させる）d his 死刑執行

The 温和／情状酌量 嘆願（書） on に代わって of Deck 特記する／引用するd 乱用 he 苦しむd as a child, 含むing beatings that left welts and 性の 乱用 (pictured: at an unknown age)

The 温和／情状酌量 嘆願（書） on に代わって of Deck 特記する／引用するd 乱用 he 苦しむd as a child, 含むing beatings that left welts and 性の 乱用. It said he and his siblings often were left alone without food. Deck's 弁護士／代理人／検事, Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, said in a 声明 that Deck also was 強姦d while in 刑務所，拘置所 for 窃盗 at age 19.

'This experience transformed him from a 非，不，無-violent どろぼう into the person who committed two terrible 殺人s,' Carlyle said. She called his 死刑執行 '不正な and immoral.'

The number of 死刑執行s in the US has 拒絶する／低下するd 意味ありげに since 頂点（に達する）ing at 98 in 1998. The 減少（する） has 同時に起こる／一致するd with 拒絶する／低下するing support, 落ちるing fro m a high of 80 パーセント in 1994 to 54 パーセント in 2021 によれば Gallup 投票s. Since the 中央の-1990s, 対立 has risen from under 20 パーセント to around 45 パーセント.

Use of the 死刑 has become concentrated mostly in a few Southern and Plains 明言する／公表するs. Last year, Texas 遂行する／発効させるd three inmates, Oklahoma 遂行する／発効させるd two, and one each were put to death in Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri. Three 連邦の inmates were 遂行する／発効させるd in January 2021, toward the end of 大統領 Donald Trump's 行政.

On Monday, Tennessee 知事 法案 物陰／風下 paused 死刑執行s in his 明言する／公表する for the 残り／休憩（する） of the year to enable a review of lethal 注射 手続きs after a 実験（する）ing oversight 軍隊d the 明言する／公表する to call off the 死刑執行 of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die on April 21.