Man executed for killing two jailers during failed escape bid in 2000

Michael Tisius (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)

A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail has been executed.

Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6.10pm local time on Tuesday (12.10am on Wednesday BST), US authorities said.