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Stanley D. Lingar was executed for sexually abusing and killing a 16-year-old southeast Missouri boy in 1985. Lingar, 37, died at 12:06 a.m. after the 1st of 3 lethal drugs was administered at the Potosi Correctional Center. Lingar was given the death sentence for killing Thomas S. Allen. Amnesty International and the New York-based gay activist group Queer Watch also asked Holden to halt the execution. "There is concern he got the death penalty because he is gay," said Bill Dobbs of Queer Watch. Lingar becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Missouri and the 13th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA.