by admin | Nov 12, 2004 | Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt
A former member of the State Supreme Court calls for a moratorium on the death penalty. Retired Judge Charles Blackmar, who was on the court from 1982 to 1992, has told a Columbia audience he thinks a “fair number” of people have been executed who were not...
by admin | Oct 21, 2004 | Crime / Courts
Of all the prison inmates facing a death penalty in Missouri, the one Attorney General most wants to see executed is Theodore Boliek, who killed his lover 21 years ago with a shotgun blast to the face. But seven years ago, Governor Mel Carnahan issued a stay –...
by admin | Oct 16, 2004 | Crime / Courts
A prosecutor from one of Missouri’s biggest counties says he’s had enough with an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in this state and he wants one supreme court judge to pay the price. Greene County Prosecutor Darrel Moore says it’s been a...
by admin | Oct 12, 2004 | Crime / Courts
The life of a Missouri prison inmate hangs in the balance as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in his death penalty case, but much more that his fate will be decided once the Court rules. The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up an appeal of the Missouri Supreme...
by admin | Oct 12, 2004 | Crime / Courts
A Dent County methamphetamine dealer who murdered a deputy sheriff and two other people has been sentenced to death by a Platte County jury. Earl Forrest the Second had been charged with first-degree murder in the December, 2002 deaths of Chief Deputy JoAnn Barnes,...
