by admin | Sep 26, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to consider lethal injection challenges from two death row inmates in Kentucky has Missouri authorities wondering whether the ruling will be narrowly geared to Kentucky or will extend to the rest of the country. Brian Hauswirth...
by admin | Sep 6, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The lawyer for condemned prison inmate Michael Taylor has taken Taylor’s case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Taylor’s lawyers maintain Missouri’s procedure for administering lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. The...
by admin | Aug 8, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The federal appeals court in St. Louis has refused to consider whether Missouri’s lethal injection execution process is unconstutional. The court has let a previous decision stand that says it is not. A panel of three-members of the court had ruled in June that...
by admin | Jul 17, 2007 | Crime / Courts
A condemned prison inmate who does not want to die in prison apparently will, but not by lethal injection. Prisoner Brian Kinder has been under the death sentence for 15 years for raping a woman and beating her to death with a pipe in 19-90. He says his...
by admin | Jul 3, 2007 | Crime / Courts
Lawyers for condemned prison inmate Michael Taylor have asked the full federal appeals court to consider whether Missouri’s lethal injection method is constitutional. A three-judge panel of the 8th United States Court of Appeals in St. Louis court ruled a month...
