by admin | Jul 24, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Another legal challenge to the death penalty has been launched. Death row inmate John Middleton, whose execution is expected to be scheduled for September 17th, is the lead plaintiff in a civil case filed in Cole County Circuit Court challenging Missouri’s...
by admin | Jul 6, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Missouri’s first execution in almost three years is a little more than three weeks away. The corrections department is putting its people in place for the July 30th execution of methamphetamine user and dealer John Middleton, who killed another meth dealer to...
by admin | Jun 27, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Missouri could see its first execution since October 2005 on July 30. The state Supreme Court says that’s when prisoner John Middleton will die for killing two people in Mercer County in 1995. Middleton was identified as an amphetamine dealer who killed two...
by admin | Jun 25, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Governor Blunt hopes the United States Supreme Court changes its mind someday and lets prosecutor ask for the execution of those who rape children. Governor Blunt notes the court’s ruling against execution for rapists of children w as only 5-4, meaning one...
by admin | May 30, 2008 | Crime / Courts
The state supreme court indicates it is ready to start ordering executions. The court has notified two prisoners facing death for murders in 1995 that it will set execution dates for them "in due course." The judges have not indicated when they will take...
