by admin | Apr 26, 2001 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has set a May 23rd execution day for Sam Smith, who was convicted in the January, 1987 stabbing murder of fellow inmate Marlin May at the state prison in Jefferson City. At the time of the killing, Smith was serving a sentence for second-degree...
by admin | Apr 25, 2001 | Crime / Courts
More than eighteen years after he shot and killed three people in a St. Louis pawn shop, Mose Young has been executed by lethal injection at the prison in Potosi. The time between the commission of the murders and the execution was lengthy — as was the time...
by admin | Apr 10, 2001 | News
Legislation aimed at ending the death penalty against the mentally retarded in Missouri is being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill passed easily in the House. Now, the Judiciary Committee must decide whether to approve it and send it to the full...
by admin | Apr 4, 2001 | Crime / Courts
There’s a call for public executions, and it comes from an unlikely source. Death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, author of “Dead Man Walking,” took part in an anti-capital punishment rally at the State Capitol in Jefferson City. Sister Helen...
by admin | Apr 3, 2001 | Crime / Courts
The author of “Dead Man Walking” has brought her crusade against the death penalty to the State Capitol in Jefferson City. Sister Helen Prejean spoke to reporters, then took part in a rally against capital punishment. Sister Helen says that while she is...
