by admin | Mar 6, 2003 | Crime / Courts
State Supreme Court judges now ponder whether a death row inmate who was 17 when he killed a woman in St. Louis County should be put to death. The attorney for Christopher Simmons, Jennifer Brewer, tells the judges the state should not be allowed to execute someone...
by admin | Feb 12, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction and death sentence of a man convicted of two murders in Camden County. The Court’s ruling in the case of Danny Wolfe is unanimous. It says he had an ineffective lawyer. He could get a new trial. It’s...
by admin | Feb 10, 2003 | Crime / Courts
State Attorney General Jay Nixon denies his office advocates that a death-row inmate in Missouri should be executed whether the State Supreme Court believes he’s innocent or not. That seemed to be the impression left during oral arguments before the Supreme...
by admin | Feb 5, 2003 | Crime / Courts
Convicted killer Kenneth Kenley, who shot and killed a man during an armed robbery in a Poplar Bluff tavern in January of 1984, has been executed by lethal injection at the prison in Potosi. Kenley, who also shot the bartender during that robbery, also robbed a...
by admin | Feb 4, 2003 | Crime / Courts
An Assistant Attorney General has told the State Supreme Court it should not release a Missouri death row inmate, even if it finds him innocent. Inmate Joseph Amrine is condemned to die for the stabbing death of fellow Jefferson City prison inmate Gary Barber in 1986....
