Missouri executes Michael Tisius for murders of Randolph County jailers in 2000

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri on Tuesday evening executed Michael Tisius, who fatally shot two guards during a botched jail escape more than two decades ago. Tisius, 42, died by lethal injection at 6:10 p.m. at a prison in eastern Missouri. In a handwritten final statement, Tisius, 42, said he was “sorry it had to come to this” and that he “really did try to become a better man.”

“I am holding tightly to my faith. It’s all I have left to take with me,” he wrote. “I am sorry it had to come to this in this way. I wish I could have made things right while I was still here.”