As his execution drew near, The Missouri Prisoner David Hosier’s spiritual adviser said Tuesday that he is “accepting his fate.”
Hozier, 69, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He is accused of killing Angela Gilpin, the woman with whom Hozier had an affair, and her husband, Rodney Gilpin, in 2009.
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Hosier’s attorneys said there are no court appeals pending.
Governor Mike Parson On Monday, the court denied a clemency request, citing Hosier’s lack of remorse. Hosier has continued to claim he had nothing to do with the shootings. Investigators and prosecutors said Hosier killed the couple in a fit of rage after Angela Gilpin broke off the relationship and reconciled with her husband.
This photo provided by Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty shows inmate David Hosier at the Potosi Correctional Center in Potosi, Missouri, on Friday, June 7, 2024. Hosier is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, for the 2009 murders of a Jefferson City couple, but he has long been questioned over how he could be convicted based on circumstantial evidence. (Missouri to abolish death penalty via AP)
Hosier’s spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeff Hood, said he was “accepting his fate and his faith. I think he feels like he’s made a decision to stand up for himself and has gained a lot of respect in the process.”
Hozier said in his final statement released to The Associated Press that he would die with love in his heart.
“Now I can go to heaven,” he said in his statement. “Don’t cry for me. Just come join me when your time comes.”
Hoosier’s father is a Indiana State Police Sergeant Glenn Hosier, killed in the line of duty, was shot and killed as he entered a home searching for a murder suspect in 1971. Other officers returned fire and killed the suspect.
David Hosier, 16 at the time, was sent to military school and enlisted in the Navy after graduation. He served four years of active duty and later moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, where he worked as a firefighter and EMT for several years.
In the interview with AP, Hosier admitted to his affair with Angela Gilpin, which he ended before she got back together with her husband. In September 2009, he was shot and killed near the door of his Jefferson City apartment.
Detective Jason Miles told the AP that Hosier made several comments to other people in the days before the killings threatening to harm Angela Gilpin. After the shootings, police found an application for a protective order in Angela Gilpin’s purse, and another document in which she expressed fears that Hosier might shoot her and her husband.
Hosier was an immediate suspect, but police were unable to find him. They used cellphone data to locate him in Oklahoma. When an Oklahoma officer tried to stop Hosier’s car, a chase ensued. When he got out, he told officers, “Shoot me, and that’s the end of it all,” court records show.
Authorities found 15 guns, a bulletproof vest, 400 rounds of ammunition and other weapons in Hosier’s car. The weapons included a submachine gun that investigators said was made from a kit used in the murders, though tests performed on it were inconclusive.
A note was also found on the front seat of Hosier’s car. It read, “If you’re going out with someone, don’t lie to them.” “If something is wrong, be honest with them. If you don’t, it could happen to you!!”
Hosier said he was not fleeing to Oklahoma, but simply taking a long drive to calm his mind. He said he had the guns because he likes to hunt. He doesn’t remember any notes in the car.
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 2019.
Hozier wheezed several times and his voice was weak while speaking by phone with the AP last week. He was moved from prison to a hospital in mid-May — a rare move for death row inmates. He was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
Hosier will be the seventh person to be executed in the U.S. this year and the second in Missouri. Brian Dorsey was executed in April for the 2006 murders of his cousin and her husband.
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Missouri plans to execute another man, Marcellus Williams, on Sept. 24, though Williams is still awaiting a hearing on his claim of innocence in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell had requested a court hearing in January because DNA technology, not available at the time of the crime, showed that someone else’s DNA — but not Williams’ — was found on the knife used in the stabbing. Williams was just hours away from being executed in 2017 when then-Governor Eric Greitens granted him a reprieve.
