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43-year-old Missouri inmate dies awaiting execution for elderly couple’s murder
A 43-year-old death row inmate in Missouri has died awaiting execution for murdering an elderly couple who caught him breaking into their home, prison officials said Wednesday.
South Carolina considers electric chair as its only option for condemned
South Carolina once had one of the county’s highest rates of execution, even putting two prisoners to death in one night. But now the state hasn’t executed a prisoner in nine years and currently lacks the drugs to carry out lethal injections for any of the 37 inmates on the state’s death row. Some lawmakers […]
Execution date set for man convicted of killing 81-year-old
A Missouri man convicted of killing an 81-year-old mobile home park manager nearly three decades ago now faces execution in May. The Missouri Supreme Court this week set a May 19 execution date for Walter Barton, 64. He would be the first Missouri inmate put to death since Russell Bucklew was executed in October. The […]
Florida Supreme Court on the death penalty: We got it wrong
The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it erred in 2016 when it ruled a jury must be unanimous in deciding a convicted murderer should be sentenced to death, announcing a dramatic legal reversal that could affect dozens of death row cases. The opinion pulled back from the court’s 2016 state Supreme Court decision that subsequently […]
Claiming innocence, inmate seeks DNA testing in 1976 slaying
A man who has spent 43 years in prison for a murder his lawyers say his half brother likely committed is requesting DNA testing on a hunting cap left at the scene of the deadly robbery and shooting in southeast Iowa. Gentric Hicks, 73, is serving a life sentence for the early-morning May 23, 1976, […]
Claiming innocence, inmate seeks DNA testing in 1976 slaying
A man who has spent 43 years in prison for a murder his lawyers say his half brother likely committed is requesting DNA testing on a hunting cap left at the scene of the deadly robbery and shooting in southeast Iowa. Gentric Hicks, 73, is serving a life sentence for the early-morning May 23, 1976, […]
Federal death row inmate from Kansas wants execution delayed
A federal death row inmate from Kansas who raped, killed and dismembered a 16-year-old girl and beat an 80-year-old woman to death wants the chance to present claims that his trial lawyer was ineffective. Attorneys for Wesley Ira Purkey last week requested a stay of his execution, currently scheduled for Dec. 13. Purkey is among […]
Federal death row inmate from Kansas wants execution delayed
A federal death row inmate from Kansas who raped, killed and dismembered a 16-year-old girl and beat an 80-year-old woman to death wants the chance to present claims that his trial lawyer was ineffective. Attorneys for Wesley Ira Purkey last week requested a stay of his execution, currently scheduled for Dec. 13. Purkey is among […]
A look at the 5 federal death row inmates facing execution
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at USP Terre Haute, a high-security penitentiary in Indiana. […]
A look at the 5 federal death row inmates facing execution
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at USP Terre Haute, a high-security penitentiary in Indiana. […]
High court denies relief for cop killer
Kevin Johnson Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the 2005 shooting death of a police officer in Meacham Park in Kirkwood.
KC judge appointed to oversee death row inmate’s case
The Missouri Supreme Court has appointed a special master to handle death row inmate Reginald Clemons’ habeas corpus petition. The state high court has appointed Jackson County Circuit Judge Michael Manners to oversee the matter. Clemons filed a habeas writ earlier this month with the Missouri Supreme Court. Clemons had been scheduled to be executed […]
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