by Mike Lear | Jan 14, 2014 | News
Some state lawmakers want executions in Missouri put on hold until questions are answered about how they are being carried out. Representative John Rizzo (D-Kansas City) has proposed that an 11-member commission be appointed to study those same issues, and he wants...
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...
by Mike Lear | Dec 10, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The Attorney General’s Office has filed for a rehearing on a stay of execution for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed tonight at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne Terre. A 3-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of...
