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 | Jul 8, 2014 | News
The Corrections Department asked the State Supreme Court not to ask it to carry out more than one execution per month. The Supreme Court has honored that request and changed its own rules to reflect it. A Corrections spokesman hasn’t acknowledged the request was...
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...
