by admin | Jul 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A federal judge in California has ruled that state’s death penalty takes so long to be carried out it breaks the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling could have an impact on cases in Missouri. The judge ruled that delays of 25 years or...
by admin | 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 admin | 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 admin | 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 admin | 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...
