by admin | Mar 25, 2014 | News
Hours before the scheduled execution of convicted inmate Jeffrey Ferguson, the state House has rejected an attempt to change how the Department of Corrections pays for executions. Department Director George Lombardi testfied to a House Committee in February that all...
by admin | Jan 28, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon has denied a clemency petition for 56-year-old Herbert Smulls, scheduled to be executed early tomorrow by lethal injection for the 1991 murder of a St. Louis County jewelry store owner. In a statement, Nixon says he has reviewed Smulls’ case,...
by admin | 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 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 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....
