Former Missouri Prison Inmate Executed In California

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...

Missouri Not Likely To Allow Medical Pot Use

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...

Missouri Capital Punishment Case Attracts Interest

A Missouri Capital Punishment case to be heard by the United States Supreme Court this fall is attracting a lot of interest. The European Union, the US Conference of Bishops, the American Medical Association, even Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev have filed...