by admin | Dec 5, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The stepfather of the child once known as Precious Doe will face the death penalty when he goes on trial. The Jackson County prosecutor says execution is appropriate for Harrell Johnson of Muskogee, Oklahoma, who’s accused of kicking 3-year old Erica Green in...
by admin | Dec 1, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A public defender has argued before the State Supreme Court that a triple murderer should not face the death penalty in his trial in Camden County, because he was ruled mentally retarded in another county. Janet Thompson told the judges it makes no sense for Camden...
by admin | Nov 30, 2005 | Crime / Courts
State Supreme Court judges are weighing arguments about just how far prosecutors can go during the penalty phase of a murder trial. Assistant Public Defender Janet Thompson argued before the Court that emotion took over when the jury recommended Earl Forrest be put to...
by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | Crime / Courts
This week’s execution of Marlin Gray for his role in the 1991 rape and murder of two women on the Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis leaves Reginald Clemons as the only member of the convicted gang of four whose sentence is yet to be carried out. The State...
by admin | Oct 26, 2005 | Crime / Courts
Marlin Gray, considered the ringleader in the murders of two young women in St.Louis in 1991, was executed early this morning at the state prison in Bonne Terre. In his last statement, Gray called his execution a “lynching.” Gray and three others were convicted of...
