by admin | May 18, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A flury of legal activity gave Vernon Brown two-and-a-half more hours, but failed to stop his execution at the Bonne Terre prison. Brown was prepared to enter the execution chamber, when the US Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution while it could consider last...
by admin | Apr 28, 2005 | Crime / Courts
Missouri has a new place for people to die. The state now has a specifically-designed place to execute criminals for the first time since the gas chamber was closed at the old state penitentiary more than 15 years ago. The new execution chamber at the Bonne Terre...
by admin | Apr 27, 2005 | Crime / Courts
With family looking on, Donald Jones quietly went to his death in the execution chamber at the Bonne Terre prison. Jones died for the beating and stabbing death of his grandmother. She had refused to give him money to buy drugs. Jones killed his grandmother, stold her...
by admin | Apr 26, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A death penalty opponent says Governor Matt Blunt has left himself almost no reason to ever intervene to stop an execution. Blunt has said he won’t step in and stop an execution unless evidence is presented him that has never been reviewed by a court or jury...
by admin | Apr 25, 2005 | News
An unofficial moratorium on executions ended in mid-March and another execution is scheduled this week. Meanwhile, a State Representative is fighting an uphill battle to put a stop to executions. Missouri hadn’t held an execution since October of 2003 until the...
