POTOSI, Mo. — A man was executed by injection early Wednesday for killing a woman and her two sons during a 1992 robbery because he feared the family would identify him.
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Prosecutors said Gary Lee Roll and two accomplices went to the Scheper's Cape Girardeau home in southeast Missouri early Aug. 9, 1992, with the intent to commit robbery. Sherry Scheper, 47, was beaten to death with a gun; Randy, 17, was shot and killed; and Curtis, 22, was stabbed to death.