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Roundup: Court upholds use of Mo. escape rule

When a convicted murderer fled prior to his sentencing hearing in 1991, he killed any possibility to get relief from his punishment. A panel of federal appellate judges last week upheld the life sentence for Alan Echols, who remained at-large for eight years after being convicted of first-degree murder by a Jackson County jury in October ...

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