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Execution set for Marcellus Williams

The Missouri Supreme Court has set an Aug. 22 execution date for Marcellus Williams. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 stabbing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter, in St. Louis County. He was initially set ...

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Powell named to Missouri Supreme Court

Brent Powell, currently a circuit judge in Jackson County, will be the Missouri Supreme Court’s newest judge. Gov. Eric Greitens announced Powell on Tuesday as his first appointee to the state’s highest court, filling a vacancy left by the death ...

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Governor signs expert witness bill

Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday signed a bill into law that heightens the standards for Missouri courts to admit expert testimony. The bill, which will go into effect Aug. 28, would require Missouri courts to follow the so-called Daubert standard, ...

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