by admin | Apr 22, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The Missouri Supreme Court has set a May 14th execution date for John Smith who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend Brandie Kearnes and her step-father Wayne Hoewing on July 4th, 1997. Kearnes and Hoewing were stabbed to death in their home near Canton in...
by admin | Apr 10, 2003 | News
The Senate has given first round approval to a bill intended to deal with overcrowding in the state’s prison system. Missouri’s prison population has doubled in the past ten years and Senator Harold Caskey of Butler has proposed relaxed probation and...
by admin | Mar 6, 2003 | Crime / Courts
State Supreme Court judges now ponder whether a death row inmate who was 17 when he killed a woman in St. Louis County should be put to death. The attorney for Christopher Simmons, Jennifer Brewer, tells the judges the state should not be allowed to execute someone...
by admin | Feb 5, 2003 | Crime / Courts
Convicted killer Kenneth Kenley, who shot and killed a man during an armed robbery in a Poplar Bluff tavern in January of 1984, has been executed by lethal injection at the prison in Potosi. Kenley, who also shot the bartender during that robbery, also robbed a...
by admin | Feb 4, 2003 | Crime / Courts
An Assistant Attorney General has told the State Supreme Court it should not release a Missouri death row inmate, even if it finds him innocent. Inmate Joseph Amrine is condemned to die for the stabbing death of fellow Jefferson City prison inmate Gary Barber in 1986....
