by Mike Lear | Jul 15, 2014 | News
For the second time Tuesday, District Judge Catherine Perry has granted a stay in the lethal injection execution of John Middleton, just over an hour from when it is scheduled to take place at the prison in Bonne Terre. Judge Perry writes that Middleton should have a...
by Mike Lear | Jul 15, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A 3-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the stay of the execution of John Middleton, scheduled to happen tonight at the prison in Bonne Terre. A District Judge had granted the stay based on Middleton’s claim that he is not competent to...
by Mike Lear | Jun 16, 2014 | News
Attorneys for convicted murderer John Winfield have asked U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito to issue a stay in Winfield’s execution, scheduled for early Wednesday morning at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne...
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...
by Mike Lear | Jan 24, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The state Supreme Court has set an execution date for Michael Taylor, one of two men who pleaded guilty to the 1989 murder of a 15-year-old girl. The Court has ordered that he be executed February 26. Taylor and Roderick Nunley both admitted to abducting Ann Harrison...
