by admin | May 4, 2000 | News
A push to ban executions in Missouri of people who are mentally retarded is criticized as unnecessary. The issue is whether Missouri needs a new law or whether present law adequately protects retarded people who commit murders. Senator Larry Rohrbach of Moniteau...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A jury in Kansas City could become the first in almost half a century to hand down a death penalty in a federal murder case. Three men from the country of Colombia have been convicted of murdering a man they thought stole about a quarter-million dollars in drug money...
by admin | Apr 25, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Prison inmate Christoper Simmons has lost an appeal of his death sentence to the United States Supreme Court. He was 17 when he taped a woman to a chair and then threw her into the Meramec River in St. Louis County. He’ll be 24 tomorrow.
by admin | Apr 6, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Attorney General Janet Reno has cleared the way for the death penalty to be sought in Kansas City against Keith Nelson. Nelson is charged with kindpapping a ten-year-old girl in Kansas, sexually abusing her and killing her. Her body was found near a Grain Valley,...
by admin | Apr 4, 2000 | Crime / Courts
The suspect in five Kansas City murders wants to cut a deal that will save him from execution. Lawyers for Gary Beach say he’ll plead guilty and take a life-without-parole prison term if prosecutors throw out their plans to seek the death penalty. The prosecutor...
