by admin | Dec 16, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A man who once sat on Missouri’s death row waiting for his sentence to be carried out is now just waiting for Christmas. For the last 26 years, Joseph Amrine watched Christmas come and go from behind bars, 17 of those years under a death sentence. Earlier this...
by admin | Oct 30, 2003 | News
A family is trying to put the pieces back together after the final chapter of a six-year ordeal that finally culminated in this week’s execution of a man who murdered two of its members. John Clayton Smith was executed Wednesday morning for the July, 1997,...
by admin | Oct 28, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The death sentences of three prison inmates have been commuted by the State Supreme Court to life in prison without parole. The Court notes federal court precedent in setting aside the penalties for Antonio Richardson, Keith Smith, and Andre Morrow. Earlier rulings...
by admin | Oct 2, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has lifted the death sentences against a Columbia man accused of three murders. The court rules that DeAndra Buchanan should not be under a death sentence because a jury did not recommend execution. The court says a judge cannot sentence...
by admin | Aug 26, 2003 | Crime / Courts
Missouri inmate Christopher Simmons no longer is under a death sentence. The State Supreme Court has lifted Simmons’ death sentence and sentenced him to life in prison. The Court has ruled that since Simmons was 17 when he killed Shirley Crook in 1993, executing...
