by Mike Lear | May 21, 2014 | News
The execution of convicted Missouri inmate Russell Bucklew has been halted by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court ruled the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals should consider the appeal filed by Bucklew’s attorneys. They argue that a rare medical...
by Mike Lear | Apr 23, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The state of Missouri has carried out the execution of William Rousan, who was convicted of the murders of Grace and Charles Lewis in 1993. Following his execution early Wednesday morning, one of the Lewises’ children, Michael, read the following statement to...
by Mike Lear | Apr 23, 2014 | News
The state has carried out the execution of 57-year-old William Rousan, who was convicted of the 1993 murders of a rural southeast Missouri couple in 1993. He died by lethal injection at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne Terre, not far...
by Mike Lear | Mar 26, 2014 | News
Missouri’s Attorney General has issued a statement following the execution early this morning of Jeffrey Ferguson at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre. In the statement, Chris Koster says, “More than two decades have...
by Mike Lear | Mar 26, 2014 | News
A convicted inmate has been executed for the 1989 murder of a St. Louis County teenager. The Missouri Department of Public Safety reports 59-year-old Jeffrey Ferguson has died by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional...