by Mike Lear | Feb 26, 2014 | News
Upon the completion of the execution of Michael Taylor, Attorney General Chris Koster released this statement: “Over 9,100 days have passed since the morning Michael Taylor and Roderick Nunley kidnapped 15-year-old Ann Harrison as she waited for her school bus....
by Mike Lear | Feb 24, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Attorneys for three men sentenced to be executed have presented their arguments to the Missouri Supreme Court why it shouldn’t set a date for their executions. The Court ordered those attorneys to prepare those arguments in Show Cause orders issued in each case,...
by Mike Lear | Feb 21, 2014 | News
The state Supreme Court has issued an execution order for 59-year-old Jeffrey Ferguson for the 1989 abduction, rape and murder of 17-year-old Kelli Hall in St. Louis County. The Court has set March 26 as his execution date. Ferguson and another man, Kenneth...
by Mike Lear | Jan 28, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon has denied a clemency petition for 56-year-old Herbert Smulls, scheduled to be executed early tomorrow by lethal injection for the 1991 murder of a St. Louis County jewelry store owner. In a statement, Nixon says he has reviewed Smulls’ case,...
by Mike Lear | Jan 24, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The state Supreme Court has set an execution date for Michael Taylor, one of two men who pleaded guilty to the 1989 murder of a 15-year-old girl. The Court has ordered that he be executed February 26. Taylor and Roderick Nunley both admitted to abducting Ann Harrison...