Missouri man executed for killing 2 jailers during failed bid to help inmate escape in 2000

By JIM SALTER
Associated Press

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who killed two jailers in a failed attempt to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail in 2000 has been executed. Forty-two-year-old Michael Tisius received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He was convicted of killing Leon Egley and Jason Acton. The jailers were slain on June 22, 2000, as Tisius sought to help an inmate break out of the Randolph County Jail. Tisius shot both jailers but couldn’t unlock the cell door. He was captured later that day. The execution was the 12th in the U.S. this year, and the third in Missouri.