Vincent Johnson was executed by the State of Oklahoma for Shirley Mooneyham
According to court documents Vincent Johnson would fatally shoot Shirley Mooneyham at her rural home. Prosecutors claimed that Johnson was paid by Shirley Mooneyham husband Ted Holt to murder her however Holt would later be acquitted at trial
Vincent Johnson was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Vincent Johnson would be executed by lethal injection on May 29 2001
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Vincent Johnson was executed on May 29 2001
Vincent Johnson Case
Oklahoma executed a man who murdered a woman in a hail of gunfire and at the request of her common-law husband and a friend. Vincent Allen Johnson, a 42-year-old former oil field worker, said in a taped confession he was expecting payment of $100,000 for killing Shirley Mooneyham, 44. Before the injection, Johnson was asked if he had anything to say. He looked at the ceiling and said: “No sir, I don’t.”
Authorities said Johnson, firing from guns held in each hand, shot Mooneyham 6 times. Her estranged common-law husband, Ted Holt, was acquited on murder charges. The friend, John Crain, was never brought to trial. During Johnson’s trial he maintained his innocence, but authorities produced 3 earlier confessions, including one that was on audiotape.
Johnson becomes the 13th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Oklahoma and the 43rd overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1990. Johnson becomes the 33rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 716th overall since America resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
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Oklahoma executed a man on Tuesday who had been convicted of shooting to death a woman for $100,000 that her husband promised but never paid, prison officials said. Vincent Allen Johnson, 42, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m. (10:07 p.m. EDT), two minutes after receiving a lethal chemical injection at a state prison here, said Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie. Asked if he any final words, Johnson, strapped down on the death chamber gurney, said, “No sir, I don’t.” It was the state’s 43rd execution since Oklahoma reinstated the death penalty in 1977 and resumed executions in 1990.
Johnson was not among the dozen death row inmates whose executions were put on hold because of foul-ups at an Oklahoma City police forensics lab. Johnson’s case did not involve any work by Joyce Gilchrist, the chemist whose work has been called into question. Johnson was convicted of the 1991 murder-for-hire of Shirley Mooneyham, 44, in rural southeastern Oklahoma. Prosecutors said Mooneyham’s common-law husband Todd Holt promised Johnson $100,000 to kill his wife, although Holt was later acquitted in a separate trial. Police said Johnson went to Mooneyham’s home and smoked a marijuana cigarette with her before shooting her repeatedly with a gun she had on her table and with one he had brought along in his pocket. In a taped phone call with an undercover police informant, Johnson complained after the murder that he had not been paid.
Johnson’s last requested meal was fried fish with tarter sauce, hush puppies, French fries, a strawberry malt and a soda.
