Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Leroy Collings on Tuesday, 17 years after he confessed to raping and killing his friend's 9-year-old stepdaughter. Collings, 49, was executed by ...

Christopher Leroy Collings was executed by lethal injection in Missouri for the 2007 rape and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford.

Christopher Collings was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, with his apologetic last statement revealed after he confessed to the 2007 rape and murder of his friend's 9-year-old stepdaughter ...

Christopher Collings, 49, was executed Tuesday for the 2007 rape and murder of Rowan Ford, a 9-year-old girl who knew him as “Uncle Chris." ...

Rowan Ford knew Christopher Collings as "Uncle Chris" after he spent several months living with her family. On Tuesday, Collings was executed for sexually assaulting and killing the child, then ...

Christopher Collings, 49, was executed on Tuesday for sexually assaulting and killing nine-year-old Rowan Ford, then dumping her body in a sinkhole outside a small Missouri town ...

Christopher Collings, a Missouri death row inmate who sexually assaulted and killed a 9-year-old girl, was executed as scheduled on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

The state of Missouri executed Christopher Collings, 49, on Tuesday, for the 2007 sexual assault and killing of 9-year-old Rowan Ford.

Collings’s last meal was a bacon cheeseburger, breaded mushrooms, tater tots and a chef salad. The killing marks the 23rd execution nationally this year and the fourth in Missouri.

Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Collings on Tuesday for the 2007 rape and murder of Rowan Ford.

A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for sexually assaulting and killing a 9-year-old girl, then dumping her body in a sinkhole outside a small, rural town.