by admin | Feb 23, 2011 | Crime / Courts
The drug that’s given to inmates to put them out before they’re put to death has likely been used for the last time. Like Missouri, Texas uses sodium thiopental in executions. Timothy Wayne Adams died by lethal injection last night in Huntsville, Texas. He...
by admin | Feb 9, 2011 | Crime / Courts
Martin Link died at the Bonne Terre prison at 12:15 a.m. “The state says killing is wrong,” he said in his final statement. “So why do they do it? For revenge. Where is the closure? There is none. The death penalty is a act of revenge. Many men sit...
by admin | Jan 22, 2011 | Crime / Courts
A key drug used by the state of Missouri in executions will no longer be made by its only domestic manufacturer. Hospira has announced it will no longer make sodium thiopental, an anesthetic used in Missouri as one of three drugs administered as the deadly cocktail in...
by admin | Jan 14, 2011 | News
Governor Nixon talks in general terms about why he commuted condemned prisoner Richard Clay’s sentence from death to life without parole earlier this week. He said several things went into his decision including the inolvement of other people in the case and...
by admin | Jan 10, 2011 | Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt
Gov. Nixon has commuted the death sentence of Richard Clay to life in prison. Clay was to have been executed just after midnight Tuesday at the prison in Bonne Terre. It would have been the first execution in Missouri in 20 months. The last person to be executed in...
