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.” Tisius was convicted of murdering two guards in 2000 at the Randolph County jail in central Missouri, in a failed attempt to break out a prisoner he knew. That man, Roy Vance, is serving a life sentence. Tisius, who was 19 years old at the time of the killings, was put to death despite calls from national and international groups, such as the American Bar Association and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, ...