by admin | Jun 30, 2021 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
A convicted triple killer from Columbia is set to be executed in October at the state’s maximum-security prison in Bonne Terre. The Missouri Supreme Court has scheduled an October 5 execution date for 60-year-old Ernest Lee Johnson. The Supreme Court scheduled...
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 17, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Legislation has been introduced that would add the use of a firing squad to the methods of execution the state could use in carrying out the death penalty. The bill offered by Representative Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) would have the director of the department of...