by admin | Sep 6, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The lawyer for condemned prison inmate Michael Taylor has taken Taylor’s case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Taylor’s lawyers maintain Missouri’s procedure for administering lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. The...
by admin | Aug 22, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has vacated one of the death sentences against prison inmate Andrew Lyons . His second death sentence remains. A jury convicted Lyons in 1996 of murdering his girlfriend and her mother. It also convicted him of manslaughter in the death...
by admin | Aug 17, 2007 | Crime / Courts
A three-judge panel of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction and death sentence given to methamphetamine dealer John Middleton, who murdered a fellow meth dealer in Harrison County in 1995. Middleton is also under two additional death...
by admin | Aug 8, 2007 | Crime / Courts
An inmate serving a death sentence at the Potosi Prison has died of natural causes. Inmate Brian Kinder has apparently died of throat cancer at the Potosi Prison, though the State Corrections Department will not disclose the cause of death. Kinder had applied for a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The federal appeals court in St. Louis has refused to consider whether Missouri’s lethal injection execution process is unconstutional. The court has let a previous decision stand that says it is not. A panel of three-members of the court had ruled in June that...
