by admin | Apr 21, 2009 | Crime / Courts
State Supreme Court judges have set up the potential for the first execution in Missouri since October of 2005. The Supreme Court has set a May 20th execution date for Dennis Skillicorn , convicted of killing an Excelsior Springs businessman in 1994. The last person...
by admin | Apr 5, 2009 | Crime / Courts
A state lawmaker who favors executions also favors a proposed study of the way the death penalty is administered in Missouri. The proposal to form a special ten-member study committee has been pushed aside in the Senate but could come back for later consideration. The...
by admin | Mar 31, 2009 | Crime / Courts
A call for a study of the way the death penalty is administered in Missouri cannot get to a vote in the state senate. About 50 men are under the death sentence in Missouri, a state that has not executed anyone since October, 2005. But executions could resume, after a...
by admin | Aug 20, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Convicted killer Dennis Skillicorn , scheduled for execution on August 27th, is going to live a while longer. The State Supreme Court has issued a couple of rulings in the Skillicorn case. While denying his request for a writ of habeas corpus, the Court has agreed to...
by admin | Jul 25, 2008 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has set a date for the execution of Dennis Skillicorn , who was found guilty of first-degree murder in a 1994 killing near Higginsville in Lafayette County. Skillicorn and an accomplice kidnapped Richard Drummond, an AT&T technical support...
