by admin | Jan 13, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
A House Committee that has investigated issues including the state’s role in a failed sucralose plant in Moberly and the Revenue Department’s handling of personal documents provided by applicants for Missouri driver’s licenses and concealed carry...
by admin | 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 admin | Dec 31, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The state Supreme Court has issued orders to four men sentenced to death to have presented to the Court their arguments why it shouldn’t set dates for their executions. The state Supreme Court has issued show cause orders to Roderick Nunley, Michael Taylor,...
by admin | Dec 12, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The state has carried out the execution of a man convicted of the murder of an Excelsior Springs businessman that had stopped to help him and two friends when their car stalled on Interstate 70 in 1994. Allen Nicklasson, 41, was pronounced dead at 10:54 p.m....
by admin | Dec 11, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
A convicted murderer is still alive at this hour as the state awaits action by the U.S. Supreme Court. A federal appeals court is standing by a stay it placed on the execution of 41-year-old Allen Nicklasson. That caused Attorney General Chris Koster to appeal to the...