by admin | Jul 28, 2004 | Crime / Courts
It’s up to the jury now to decide whether David Zink gets life in prison or execution. The jury in Osceola has found him guilty of killing Strafford teenager Amanda Morton three years ago. Testimony is being taken int he penalty phase. Zink never denied killing...
by admin | Jul 20, 2004 | Crime / Courts
A Missouri Capital Punishment case to be heard by the United States Supreme Court this fall is attracting a lot of interest. The European Union, the US Conference of Bishops, the American Medical Association, even Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev have filed...
by admin | Jun 16, 2004 | Crime / Courts
The full 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the decision of a three-judge panel that overturned the death sentence of Vernon Brown. The smaller panel of the court had agreed with Brown’s attorney that the trial court erred in not admitting a supportive...
by admin | Jan 26, 2004 | Crime / Courts
A Missouri case might well set an age limit on executions. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Christopher Simmons, 17-years-old when he broke into the house of Shirley Crook of Fenton in 1993. He bound Crook and tossed her to her death off a bridge so...
by admin | Dec 19, 2003 | Crime / Courts
West Central Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, says “too bad” to the prospect of European allies being upset that an Iraqi court could sentence Saddam Hussein to death. The death penalty is...
