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...
by Mike Lear | Jan 21, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
There will be no revelations in a legislative committee hearing today about how Missouri carries out executions. Representative Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) says the Department of Corrections’ Director George Lombardi is not going to testify before the House...
by Mike Lear | Jan 17, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Legislation has been introduced that would add the use of a firing squad to the methods of execution the state could use in carrying out the death penalty. The bill offered by Representative Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) would have the director of the department of...
by Mike Lear | Jan 14, 2014 | News
Some state lawmakers want executions in Missouri put on hold until questions are answered about how they are being carried out. Representative John Rizzo (D-Kansas City) has proposed that an 11-member commission be appointed to study those same issues, and he wants...
by Mike Lear | Jan 13, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
A House Committee that has investigated issues including the state’s role in a failed sucralose plant in Moberly and the Revenue Department’s handling of personal documents provided by applicants for Missouri driver’s licenses and concealed carry...
