A convicted Missouri murderer opted for a classic combination of many people's favorite comfort foods as his final meal .
David Hosier, 69, who spent over a decade on death row for a crime he insisted he didn't commit was executed on Tuesday evening by lethal injection after his final meal at 11 a.m. His final meal consisted of a New York strip steak, a baked potato with butter and sour cream, Texas toast, Dutch apple pie and orange juice and milk, the state Department of Corrections said.
The man was put to death shortly after 6 p.m. local time in Missouri, pronounced dead at exactly 6:11 p.m., while protesters advocating for the abolishment of the death penalty gathered in several locations across the state to ask for his clemency.
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Hosier was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to death for the killing of 45-year-old Angela Gilpin in September 2009. Angela and her husband, Rodney, 61, were found dead in the hallway of their Jefferson City apartment building.
Prosecutors claimed all clues pointed to Hosier, a veteran who once walked the halls of the Pentagon. When the police caught up with him near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, about 310 miles southwest of Jefferson City, they found around 400 rounds of ammunition and 15 firearms in his possession, according to court records obtained by The Kansas City Star.
"Everybody, no matter what, is afraid of death," Hosier exclusively told The Mirror. "If they say they're not, something's wrong with them." Hosier maintained his innocence, citing the lack of tangible evidence tying him to the crime. "I know I'm innocent. I was not there. I did not kill these people. Period. I don't know who did, but they're still walking around free," he said.
"I still don't understand how you can find a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and sentence a person to death when you have no witnesses to tie this person to the crime... no hard, physical evidence to tie me to this crime."
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Angela had been in a relationship with Hosier, which she ended up reconciling with her husband. Allegedly, Hosier began stalking her after the breakup, with a neighbor telling the police, according to court records, that Hosier had expressed, "If I can't have Angela, nobody can."
In Hosier's car, along with the firearms, the police found a note that read, "If you are going with someone do not lie to them... Be honest with them and tell them if there is something wrong. If you do not this could happen to YOU!! ... they can go off the deap [sic] end!"
Despite his insistence on innocence and lack of a solid alibi for the day of the crime, Hosier's appeals for clemency or overturning of his conviction were consistently denied, including a last-ditch effort to Missouri Governor Mike Parson, who rejected it just over 24 hours before the execution.
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