Clemency: Darrell Mease was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1988 killing of Lloyd Lawrence, Frankie Lawrence, and William Lawrence. Missouri originally scheduled Mease to be executed on the same day the Pope was scheduled to visit St. Louis on January 27, 1999. After a personal appeal by Pope John Paul II, Governor Mel Carnahan commuted Mr. Mease’s death sentence to a life sentence without parole.
