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...
by admin | Oct 13, 2004 | Crime / Courts
A United States Supreme Court ruling could change the kinds of bank credit cards we might be carrying. The Court says Mastercard and Visa have violated federal anti-trust laws by keeping member banks from issuing credit cards from other companies. American Express and...
by admin | Oct 12, 2004 | Crime / Courts
The life of a Missouri prison inmate hangs in the balance as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in his death penalty case, but much more that his fate will be decided once the Court rules. The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up an appeal of the Missouri Supreme...
by admin | Jul 20, 2004 | Crime / Courts
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...