by admin | Feb 2, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A murder in Kansas City 17 years ago continues to bring agony to two families, bound together by the crime, separated by different kinds of loss. Michael Taylor’s family accepts that he did a terrible, horrible thing – beyond understanding – when he...
by admin | Feb 2, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The system used to execute 66 people in Missouri in 17 years is under court challenge. And Michael Taylor is still alive, because of it. Taylor was to be executed at a minute past midnight Wednesday morning for the 1989 rape and murder of a 15-year-old Ann Harrison of...
by admin | Feb 1, 2006 | Crime / Courts
New Supreme Court Justice Alito, who was sworn in early today in a second White House ceremony, is refusing to let Missouri execute Michael Taylor. Taylor was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 15 year-old girl in 1989. Alito’s first...
by admin | Feb 1, 2006 | Crime / Courts
After hours and hours of delays, officials at the Prison in Bonne Terre are preparing for the execution of convicted killer Michael Taylor tonight around 7 o’clock. Larry Crawford, Director of the State Corrections Department, says it appears as though...
by admin | Feb 1, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The scheduled execution of Michael Taylor, who was sentenced to die for the murder of a girl in Kansas City in March of 1989, remains on hold. Lawyers for Taylor had gone to court, claiming the state’s method of execution – lethal injection – was a...
