by Mike Lear | Dec 12, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The state has carried out the execution of a man convicted of the murder of an Excelsior Springs businessman that had stopped to help him and two friends when their car stalled on Interstate 70 in 1994. Allen Nicklasson, 41, was pronounced dead at 10:54 p.m....
by Mike Lear | Dec 12, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
Governor Jay Nixon issued this statement following the execution by the State of Missouri of convicted murderer Allen Nicklasson for the 1994 murder of businessman Richard Drummond: “Richard Drummond’s act of kindness in stopping to help the occupants of a...
by Mike Lear | Dec 11, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
A convicted murderer is still alive at this hour as the state awaits action by the U.S. Supreme Court. A federal appeals court is standing by a stay it placed on the execution of 41-year-old Allen Nicklasson. That caused Attorney General Chris Koster to appeal to the...
by Mike Lear | Dec 10, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The Attorney General’s Office has filed for a rehearing on a stay of execution for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed tonight at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne Terre. A 3-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of...
by Mike Lear | Dec 9, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The Missouri Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution to convicted murderer Allen L. Nicklasson, who is scheduled to be put to death at 12:01 Wednesday morning. The 41-year-old Nicklasson was convicted in the 1994 killing of Richard Drummond of Excelsior Springs...