by Mike Lear | Jul 24, 2014 | News
The State Supreme Court has set a date for the execution of convicted murderer Leon Taylor. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection just after midnight, September 10, at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne Terre. Taylor was convicted...
by Mike Lear | Jul 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A federal judge in California has ruled that state’s death penalty takes so long to be carried out it breaks the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling could have an impact on cases in Missouri. The judge ruled that delays of 25 years or...
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...
