Christopher Collings, 49, was declared dead nine minutes after he was injected with a single dose of pentobarbital

Christopher Collings has become the latest person to be executed in Bonne Terre, Missouri, after a last-minute stay and clemency request were denied.

Collings, a father of two now-grown daughters, was convicted of killing Rowan Ford on Nov. 3, 2007, in the small southwest Missouri town of Stella.

Missouri carried out its fourth execution this year on Tuesday night. The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9-year-old girl's 2007 murder.

The State of Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Collings by lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 2007 abduction, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl.

A man convicted of first-degree murder and sexual abuse of a nine-year-old girl has died in prison, according to a spokesperson from the Southeast Correctional Center in Missouri.

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.