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 15, 2014 | News
For the second time Tuesday, District Judge Catherine Perry has granted a stay in the lethal injection execution of John Middleton, just over an hour from when it is scheduled to take place at the prison in Bonne Terre. Judge Perry writes that Middleton should have a...
by Mike Lear | Jul 15, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A 3-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the stay of the execution of John Middleton, scheduled to happen tonight at the prison in Bonne Terre. A District Judge had granted the stay based on Middleton’s claim that he is not competent to...
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...
