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Missouri inmate David Hosier died by lethal injection Tuesday evening, accepting his fate despite several pleas from family members and lawmakers to halt the convicted killer’s execution. A day prior, Gov. Mike Parson declined to pardon Hosier, 69, for the 2009 double slayings of Angela Gilpin and her husband, Rodney Gilpin, in the hallway of their apartment building in Jefferson City, Missouri, shortly after Angela ended her affair with Hosier. He is “accepting his fate, and his faith. I think he feels like he’s stood up for himself and gained a lot of dignity in the process,” Reverend Jeff H…

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