Missouri man scheduled to die for killing deputy, 2 others

ST. LOUIS — A man convicted of killing two people in a drug dispute and a sheriff’s deputy in a subsequent shootout is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what could be Missouri’s last execution for some time.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt Forrest’s execution hours before he is scheduled to die by injection Wednesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the killings over a drug dispute and subsequent shootout at Forrest’s home.

According to court documents, Forrest had been drinking when he went to Smith’s home in the southern Missouri town of Salem and demanded that she fulfill her promise to buy a lawn mower and mobile home for him in exchange for introducing her to a source for methamphetamine.

The pace of execution is expected to slow because most of the remaining death row inmates have pending appeals or have been declared unfit for execution.