by Mike Lear | Feb 24, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Attorneys for three men sentenced to be executed have presented their arguments to the Missouri Supreme Court why it shouldn’t set a date for their executions. The Court ordered those attorneys to prepare those arguments in Show Cause orders issued in each case,...
by Mike Lear | 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 Mike Lear | Dec 9, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The Missouri Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution to convicted murderer Allen L. Nicklasson, who is scheduled to be put to death at 12:01 Wednesday morning. The 41-year-old Nicklasson was convicted in the 1994 killing of Richard Drummond of Excelsior Springs...
by Jessica Machetta | Jun 12, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
A Poplar Bluff man has served nearly 15 years of a life sentence, and of a death sentence. However, the Supreme Court now says his sentencing hearing was unfair. Terrance Anderson was sentenced to death for shooting to death his ex-girlfriend’s mother in Poplar...
by Mike Lear | Sep 19, 2012 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
The fate of MOSIRA legislation is now in the hands of six judges on the state Supreme Court. The state legislature passed Senate Bill 7 in last year’s special session enacting the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act but only if Senate Bill 8 also...