Collings is set to die by lethal injection for the murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in the tiny southwestern Missouri village of Stella on Nov. 3, 2007.

Missouri is set to carry out its fourth execution this year on Tuesday night. The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9-year-old girl's 2007 murder.

Christopher Leroy Collings, 49, is set to die by lethal injection for the murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in the southwestern Missouri village of Stella.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for sexually assaulting and strangling a 9-year-old girl whose body was thrown into a sinkhole. Christopher Collings, 49, was set to receive a single injection of the sedative pentobarbital at or after 6 p.m. CST for the 2007 murder of fourth-grader Rowan Ford.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson has announced the scheduled execution of Chris Collings for the murder of Rowan Ford.

In a press release, it was confirmed that the sentence of Chris Collings will be carried out at the Bonne Terre prison. The release reads as follows: On December 2, Governor Mike Parson confirmed that the State of Missouri will carry out the sentence of Chis Collings on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Missouri.

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The Missouri Catholic Conference, which advocates policy on behalf of the state’s bishops, had urged Catholics to contact the governor to express their opposition to Collings’ execution.

Christopher Collings, 49, is scheduled to die by an injection of pentobarbital Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre. His would be the fourth execution in Missouri this