by Mike Lear | Feb 26, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Hours after Missouri has carried out its fourth execution in as many months a House committee will hold a hearing on a bill that would have the Department of Corrections bringing its proposed execution protocol to a legislative committee for review. Springfield...
by Mike Lear | Feb 26, 2014 | News
The Department of Public Safety has issued a statement saying that the execution by lethal injection of 47-year-old Michael Taylor has been carried out. Taylor was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne...
by Mike Lear | Feb 21, 2014 | News
The state Supreme Court has issued an execution order for 59-year-old Jeffrey Ferguson for the 1989 abduction, rape and murder of 17-year-old Kelli Hall in St. Louis County. The Court has set March 26 as his execution date. Ferguson and another man, Kenneth...
by Mike Lear | Jan 17, 2014 | News
The state representative who has proposed Missouri add the use of firing squads to its methods of execution says he’s doing it for the families of victims that want justice to be served. Representative Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) says he’s already been...
by Mike Lear | Jan 13, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Death penalty opponents and attorneys representing condemned men say the Missouri Department of Corrections is keeping too many secrets and could be breaking state law in the way it’s obtaining drugs to carry out lethal injections. The State Auditor’s...
