Lance Shockley was executed by lethal injection in Missouri on October 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of State Highway Patrol Sergeant Carl Dewayne Graham Jr.. Shockley was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

Sgt. Graham was ambushed and killed at his home in Van Buren, Missouri, in March 2005. Prosecutors stated that Shockley shot the trooper with a high-powered rifle and a shotgun because Graham was investigating him for leaving the scene of a fatal car accident.
