The Missouri Supreme Court has set an execution date for a Missouri man whose appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied in April. On June 25, the court issued an execution order for Russell Bucklew ordering him to be ...

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A string of executions over the past year belies a surprising reality: Missouri has sentenced few people to death in the past decade.

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State v. Shockley (MLW No. 65374/Case No. SC90286 – 39 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Stith, J.; all concur)

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Holder v. U.S. (MLW No. 65346/Case No. 10-1304 – 32 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Melloy, J.)

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State v. McFadden (MLW No. 64600/Case No. SC89429 – 35 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J.; Russell, Breckenridge, Fischer, Stith and Draper, JJ., concur; Wilson, J., not participating)

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Baumruk v. State (MLW No. 63542/Case No. SC91564 – 34 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Fischer, J.; Teitelman, C.J., Russell, Breckenridge, Stith and Price, JJ., and Mesle, Sp. J., concur. Draper, J., not participating)

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State v. Bowman (MLW No. 62068/Case No. SC90618 – 38 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J.; Price, C.J., Russell, Breckenridge, Fischer and Stith, JJ., concur; Wolff, J., concurs in part and dissents in part in separate opinion filed; Stith, J., concurs in opinion of Wolff, J.)

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Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to stop his execution, scheduled for today in Virginia, for one of 10 killings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area over three weeks in 2002. Muhammad was convicted of ...

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The lawyer for a Jefferson County man, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly DeSoto couple, asked the Missouri Supreme Court to resentence him to life in prison without parole. Rosemary Percival, the public defender representing Carman Deck ...

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The lawyer for a Jefferson County man, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly DeSoto couple, asked the Missouri Supreme Court to resentence him to life in prison without parole. Rosemary Percival, the public defender representing Carman Deck ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of a man found guilty of killing a woman and her three children in 2004. On Dec. 3, 2004, police found the bodies of Angela Rowe and her children – Alexus Conley, 10; ...

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