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Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who was convicted in a 2004 quadruple murder but maintained his innocence, died by lethal injection Tuesday night at a prison in eastern Missouri. Taylor, 58, was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. In his final written statement, Taylor said Muslims don’t die but live on “eternally in the hearts” of family and friends. “Death is not your enemy, it is your destiny,” he wrote in part of the statement. “Look forward to meeting it. Peace!” In a statement, the Midwest Innocence Project said Taylor was unjustly “killed by the very system that should have protected him.” In recent weeks, attorneys for Taylor highlighted new information in an effort to halt his execution. Groups like the Innocence Project and Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty also threw their support behind Taylor, who said he was in California when his girlfriend and her three kids were fatally shot in St. Louis County. Get the fu...

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