by admin | Feb 1, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The scheduled execution of Michael Taylor, who was sentenced to die for the murder of a girl in Kansas City in March of 1989, remains on hold. Lawyers for Taylor had gone to court, claiming the state’s method of execution – lethal injection – was a...
by admin | Jan 31, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The invitations have gone out to the people who are to be the witnesses of the first execution of the year, but whether it will be tonight or later tomorrow or some other day is tied up in court. A federal judge in Kansas City had blocked Michael A. Taylor’s...
by admin | Jan 20, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A federal judge has blocked the February 1st scheduled execution of Michael Taylor until evidence can be heard challenging lethal injection as a method of execution. Lawyers for Taylor say the three-drug injection system is not necessary to kill an inmate and creates...
by admin | Jan 10, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The leader of a state association of corrections officers says a manager at the Potosi Prison who was stabbed three times yesterday by a capital-punishment prisoner is in good enough shape to talk to him. The Missouri Corrections Officers Association says the manager...
by admin | Jan 3, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has set a February 1st execution date for Michael Taylor, who was sentenced to die for the March 1989 rape and murder of 15-year-old Ann Harrison of Kansas City. Taylor and co-defendant Roderick Nunley, who had been using drugs, stole a car....
