by Mike Lear | Jul 15, 2014 | News
For the second time Tuesday, District Judge Catherine Perry has granted a stay in the lethal injection execution of John Middleton, just over an hour from when it is scheduled to take place at the prison in Bonne Terre. Judge Perry writes that Middleton should have a...
by Mike Lear | Jul 15, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A 3-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the stay of the execution of John Middleton, scheduled to happen tonight at the prison in Bonne Terre. A District Judge had granted the stay based on Middleton’s claim that he is not competent to...
by Mike Lear | Jul 8, 2014 | News
The Corrections Department asked the State Supreme Court not to ask it to carry out more than one execution per month. The Supreme Court has honored that request and changed its own rules to reflect it. A Corrections spokesman hasn’t acknowledged the request was...
by Mike Lear | Jul 1, 2014 | News
Carol Angelbeck has been waiting 15 years since her daughter’s killer was sentenced to death. Now she has learned her wait could end in a little more than a month. 24-year-old Mindy Griffin was found dead in her apartment on September 30, 1995, the victim of...
by Mike Lear | Jun 17, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to overturn a stay of execution for condemned inmate John Winfield, who is scheduled to be executed just after midnight tonight. A federal judge issued the stay Friday based on arguments that...
