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Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri mentioned on Monday that he wouldn’t intervene to cease the execution of Michael Tisius, a 42-year-old who murdered two jail guards in 2000.

In a clemency petition despatched to Mr. Parson final month, a number of jurors who had voted to condemn Mr. Tisius to loss of life mentioned they now consider life imprisonment was applicable. Mr. Tisius’s attorneys had additionally argued that one other juror from the sentencing trial was unable to learn, a requirement beneath Missouri legislation for jury service.

“Missouri’s judicial system provided Mr. Tisius with due process and fair proceedings for his brutal murders of two Randolph County jail guards,” Mr. Parson mentioned in an announcement, including, “The State of Missouri will carry out Mr. Tisius’s sentences according to the court’s order and deliver justice.”

Mr. Parson, a Republican, mentioned that Mr. Tisius’s case “received fair and careful review at each step in the judicial process.”

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a keep of execution for Mr. Tisius, rejecting his attorneys’ argument that his age on the time of the crime, 19, ought to spare him from the loss of life penalty. Mr. Tisius’s authorized appeals have been exhausted.

That left the likelihood that Mr. Parson would step in and halt the execution. A former sheriff, Mr. Parson was seen as unlikely to commute the sentence. For weeks, organizations and establishments — together with the American Bar Association, the Missouri State Public Defenders, the European Union and the Catholic Church — lobbied him, arguing for clemency.

Of the jury that had voted to condemn Mr. Tisius to loss of life in 2010, six jurors, together with two alternates, have mentioned in sworn affidavits included within the clemency petition that they might be supportive or wouldn’t object if Mr. Parson stepped in to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, somewhat than loss of life.