Twenty-six years after James and Zelma Long were murdered execution-style in their DeSoto, Missouri, home, their killer met his death. Carman Deck was executed at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Tuesday evening. In the...
The Corrections Department asked the State Supreme Court not to ask it to carry out more than one execution per month. The Supreme Court has honored that request and changed its own rules to reflect it. A Corrections spokesman hasn’t acknowledged the request was...
A hearing date of September 9 has been set for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear arguments in the case of a convicted Missouri inmate whose execution was halted last month. The U.S. Supreme Court wants the Appeals Court to hear the claims by attorneys for...
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...
The Missouri Department of Corrections is prepared to carry out the execution of Michael Taylor on Feb. 26 pursuant to the warrant issued by the Missouri Supreme Court. That’s the statement from the Department itself, and backed by the Governor. A compounding...
