Leon Taylor was put to death for the 1994 shooting death of Robert Newton, the manager of an Independence gas station, and the attempted shooting of the manager’s 8-year-old stepdaughter.
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Read More »Leon Taylor was put to death for the 1994 shooting death of Robert Newton, the manager of an Independence gas station, and the attempted shooting of the manager’s 8-year-old stepdaughter.
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Read More »A scheduled Missouri execution is on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the case.
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Read More »The Missouri Supreme Court has set a Nov. 19 execution date for Leon Taylor.
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Read More »The Missouri Supreme Court has issued an execution warrant for Mark A. Christeson.
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Read More »Missouri inmate Earl Ringo Jr., convicted in two murders at a Columbia restaurant in 1998, was executed early Wednesday.
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Read More »Attorneys for Earl Ringo Jr., a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Wednesday, have asked the governor’s office for a stay to allow an independent board to examine the role of race in Ringo’s trial and sentencing.
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Read More »Leon Taylor is now scheduled to be executed September 10, according to a release from the Missouri Supreme Court.
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Read More »A federal judge’s stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate John Middleton was vacated late Tuesday afternoon by an 8th District Court of Appeals panel.
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Read More »John Middleton was issued a stay of execution Tuesday morning by Eastern Missouri U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry.
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Read More »The execution of John Winfield this week led judges of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider what due process rights are owed to a condemned inmate seeking a reprieve from the governor. (Updated 6/18 at 9:40 a.m.)
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Read More »Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is urging the creation of a state laboratory to remove pharmaceutical companies from the lethal injection process.
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