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Supreme Court upholds death penalty exclusion The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed a Washington County Circuit Court conviction and life sentence of a mentally retarded man, Steven Parkus, on Tuesday. Parkus, was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a fellow inmate at the Missouri state prison and sentenced to death. In 1999, the governor issued a stay on ...

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