by Mike Lear | Jul 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A federal judge in California has ruled that state’s death penalty takes so long to be carried out it breaks the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling could have an impact on cases in Missouri. The judge ruled that delays of 25 years or...
by Mike Lear | Jul 16, 2014 | News
Missouri inmate John Middleton has been executed after a series of final hour requests for stays and a delay were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. Missourinet News Director Bob Priddy witnessed Middleton’s execution and reports the time of death was 7:06 p.m....
by Mike Lear | Jul 1, 2014 | News
Carol Angelbeck has been waiting 15 years since her daughter’s killer was sentenced to death. Now she has learned her wait could end in a little more than a month. 24-year-old Mindy Griffin was found dead in her apartment on September 30, 1995, the victim of...
by Mike Lear | Jun 30, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The state Supreme Court has issued an execution order for a former St. Louis man sentenced to death for the September 1995 murder of his neighbor. 43-year-old Michael Shane Worthington is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection early the morning of August 6 at...
by Mike Lear | Jun 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Missouri has carried out the execution of 46-year-old John Winfield for the murders of two women in St. Louis County 18 years ago. Winfield received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at 12:01 Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead at 12:10. Winfield appeared to...
