by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A condemned Missouri inmate will get another hearing on his contention that Missouri’s method of execution violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Michael Taylor barely escaped execution earlier this year when a federal district...
by admin | Apr 27, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A Florida death penalty case argued before the US Supreme Court in Washington could have an impact in Missouri. Death row inmate Clarence Hill contends that Florida’s use of lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Missouri uses a similar method. An...
by admin | Mar 2, 2006 | Uncategorized
The death penalty is again being sought against a Kansas man convicted in a series of killings along the Missouri-Kansas border. John E. Robinson had been sentenced to death, in Kansas, in 2003 for the murders of three women in Johnson County, Kansas. He later...
by admin | Feb 14, 2006 | Crime / Courts
Prison inmate Michael Taylor, who came within hours of being executed two weeks ago, will get a hearing before a panel of the federal appeals court in St. Louis on April 18th. Taylor is one of two men under a death sentence for kidnapping, raping, and murdering...
by admin | Feb 5, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A death penalty opponent says he welcomes a study of whether lethal injection is really as humane as it’s passed off to be. Jeff Stack with Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty says he’s glad the U.S. Supreme Court intervened and stopped the execution...
