by admin | Nov 14, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Governor Roger Wilson will be deciding for the third time if somebody should be executed for murder. It’s up to him to decide if James Chambers receives a lethal injection last night for a murder committed in the early 80s. He allowed two executions while he was...
by admin | Nov 13, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A condemned man’s wife pleads for his life as the avenues for appeals dwindle. James Chambers is scheduled to die in the Potosi Prison death chamber tonight for killing a man outside a Jefferson County bar in 1982. His wife, Darlene, argues execution is too...
by admin | Oct 5, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Republican attorney general candidate Sam Jones thinks he can make Missouri’s system of capital punishment safer. He calls his proposal the Missouri Racial Justice Act. Jones would allow a defendant to try and prove during pre-trial motions that he faces the...
by admin | Sep 5, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A man convicted in a triple murder in Cape Girardeau has died for his crime. Gary Roll lapsed into unconsciousness with barely a cough at 12:04. He died at 12:07. Just minutes before his execution, the 47-year-old man dictated his final statement which read in part,...
by admin | Jul 13, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Governor Carnahan says he hasn’t heard anything new to halt the execution of Mose Young, who received a stay from a federal appeals court. But the governor says it’s appropriate to get to the bottom of any allegation. He’s not convinced the complaint...
