by admin | Mar 2, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A Missouri prosecutor says the U.S. Supreme Court decision to forbid executing murderers under the age of 18 could end up putting those same killers back on the street one day. St. Louis County Attorney Bob McCulloch says the international law cited by the Supreme...
by admin | Mar 1, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Missouri Supreme Court case involving death penalty eligibility for minors. At issue was the case of Christopher Simmons, who was 17-years-old when he kidnapped neighbor Shirley Crook in 1993, tied her, and threw her off a bridge in...
by admin | Mar 1, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A Missouri murder case reaches the United States Supreme Court today, but the double murder of Jim and Zelma Long of DeSoto in 1996 is not the issue. The issue is whether it it constitutional to make prisoners wear shackles that a jury can see during the hearing in...
by admin | Jan 19, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The State of California has executed a Missouri parolee who killed two people in California in 1981. Donald Beardslee served seven years of a 19-year sentence in a Missouri prison for killing a woman in St. Louis County. He was on parole from that prison term when he...
by admin | Nov 30, 2004 | Health / Medicine
A U.S. Supreme Court case involving medical marijuana use will likely be decided on the legal arguments – not on whether there is any merit to the claim that marijuana is beneficial to those who are in pain. So says Saint Louis University law professor Sandra...
