The body of 9-year-old Rowan Ford was found in a sinkhole near Powell, Mo. in November 2007 Christopher Collings, a Missouri death row inmate convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a 9-year-old girl,

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 sexual assault and murder of Rowan Ford in 2007 rocked the southwestern town of Stella, Missouri. On Tuesday, the man convicted of the crimes against the 9-year-old girl was executed.

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.

Collings is set to die by lethal injection for the murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in the tiny southwestern Missouri village of Stella on Nov. 3, 2007.

The state of Missouri executed Christopher Collings by lethal injection Tuesday evening, the state’s Department of Corrections and his legal team confirmed.

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.

A Missouri man is facing scheduled execution Tuesday evening for the sexual assault and killing of a 9-year-old girl whose body was dumped in a sinkhole

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.