by admin | Apr 21, 2008 | Crime / Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the lethal injection appeal of convicted murderer and death row inmate Michael Taylor of Kansas City. The decision comes on the heels of last week’s ruling in a Kentucky death penalty case in which the High Court upheld the...
by admin | Apr 21, 2008 | Politics / Govt
Governor Matt Blunt (R-MO) is renewing his call for the state’s worst sexual predators to be death penalty eligible. The Governor is asking the General Assembly to send him legislation that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty in cases of forcible...
by admin | Apr 16, 2008 | Crime / Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Kentucky’s use of lethal injections, and that may pave the way for Missouri to resume the death penalty as well, something that Brian Hauswirth, with the Missouri Department of Corrections, says is not up to his...
by admin | Nov 16, 2007 | Health / Medicine
Court documents filed in a federal death penalty appeal reveal that the doctor barred from performing executions in Missouri is part of the federal government’s execution team. Doctor Alan Doerhoff of Jefferson City has been barred by a federal judge from taking...
by admin | Oct 10, 2007 | Crime / Courts
Michael Devlin faces 74 life prison sentences plus 95 years for kidnapping and sexually abusing two boys. State Senator John Loudon says the prosecutors should have had a an even tougher penalty to use. He’s renewing his effort next year to get a law...
