by admin | Jan 21, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A coalition of Kansas City ministers, community activists, and social workers is petitioning Governor Holden to stop executions. The group wants the Governor to set up a commission to study Missouri’s death penalty system. The coalition is trying to circulate...
by admin | Jan 17, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A man who was on Illinois’ death row and had his sentence commuted to life, could be facing the death penalty in Missouri. Ernest Jamison is wanted for his alleged part in a three-state murder spree in June, 1995, for which he has already been sentenced to 25...
by admin | Jan 13, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A spokesman for Governor Bob Holden says he sees no reason to put a hold on executions in Missouri. The question has been raised because outgoing Illinois Governor George Ryan has commuted all death sentences in Illinois to life without parole. Missouri officials have...
by admin | Jan 10, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has set a February 5th execution date for Kenneth Kenley, who was convicted of the January, 1984 murder of Ronald Felts in Popular Bluff during a two-day crime spree. On the night of January 3rd, 1984, Kenley robbed a Poplar Bluff store after...
by admin | Nov 20, 2002 | Crime / Courts
William Jones has been executed by lethal injection for the 1986 shooting death of acquaintance Stanley Albert at a park in Independence. Jones and his attorneys had hoped up to the end that Jones might be granted clemency, based on their claim he did not receive...
