Jeffrey Sloan was executed by the State of Missouri for the murders of four of his family members
According to court documents Jeffrey Sloan would fatally shoot Jason Sloan, age nine, Timothy Sloan, age 18, Judith Sloan, age 38 and Paul Sloan, age 41. Jeffrey would tell police his father Paul was abusive
Jeffrey Sloan would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jeffrey Sloan would be executed by lethal injection on February 21 1996
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Jeffrey Sloan Case
A man was executed by injection early today for shooting his 9-year-old brother to death after an argument with his family over bad checks.
Jeffery Sloan, 29, was also thought to have killed his parents and 18-year-old brother in the 1985 shooting at their home in Lathrop, 30 miles from Kansas City. But he was charged only in his younger brother’s murder.
I know I’m going to a better place,” Mr. Sloan said in his final statement.
In his appeals, Mr. Sloan contended that his original lawyer had done a poor job because the lawyer was involved in laundering drug money, for which he later was convicted. The lawyer did not call any witnesses at the trial, Mr. Sloan said.
Jeffrey. Sloan contended that his mother, Judith, had told him to kill his father, Paul, because he was abusive, that his brother Timothy should die because he was like his father, and that his younger brother, Jason, should die to keep him from growing up with the knowledge that his father was abusive.
