by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | Crime / Courts
US District judge Fernando Gaitan says the state’s suggested new execution protocol is not good enough. Gaitan wants a state board-licensed anesthesiologist to be present to supervise executions. The state says it can’t find any anesthesiologists who would...
by admin | Jul 25, 2006 | Crime / Courts
Attorney General Jay Nixon has appealed a federal judge’s order that has blocked executions in Missouri. The appeal says United States District Judge Fernando Gaitan’s order requiring anesthesiologists prepare and supervise lethal injections effectively...
by admin | Jul 18, 2006 | Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt
New rules regarding who can be a foster parent have been written by the state, in response to a court ruling overturning the state’s unwritten ban on homosexuals becoming foster parents. Jackson County Circuit Judge Sandra Midriff ruled that the state cannot...
by admin | Jul 18, 2006 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine
A court ruling that forced the state to transport a pregnant female prisoner to an abortion clnic last year has been made to apply to all women in Missouri prisons. Federal Judge Dean Whipple has ruled that the US Supreme Court order that Missouri provide the...
by admin | Jun 20, 2006 | Politics / Govt
The Department of Natural Resources doesn’t want Attorney General Jay Nixon representing it any more on the Taum Sauk Reservoir collapse case. DNR Director Doyle Childres says he cannot trust Nixon to represent the department because Nixon took some campaign...
