updated Sat. March 9, 2024
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Lincoln Journal Star
April 3, 2018
Attorneys for death-row inmate John Lotter are taking a new position, alleging he is ineligible for the death penalty because he functions intellectually as a child. ... Late last week, Rebecca Woodman of the Death Penalty Litigation Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri, let a Nebraska federal judge know about aÃâà...
fox4kc.com
March 31, 2018
Missouri's Department of Corrections has been working for months to avoid a potential Easter rebellion. Smoke-free Missouri prisons are required after a prisoner who was originally sent to death row for strangling two women complained about second-hand smoke. “This was a case you just don't win," oneÃâà...
Columbia Missourian
March 20, 2018
Bucklew is a Missouri death row inmate scheduled to receive the death penalty, but was granted a stay of execution Tuesday. “I turned 71 last week, and I always thought I would see the end of the death penalty in Missouri before I died,” Hussmann said. “Now I'm not sure of that, but I'm still obliged to try toÃâà...
St. Louis Public Radio
March 20, 2018
“Anesthesia could be rendered ineffective, and Missouri really can't be sure what this execution would look like if they go forward with it.” Bucklew's attorney, Cheryl Pilate, has asked the nation's highest court for another stay, but no decision has been made yet. He's scheduled to die by lethal injectionÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 20, 2018
Missouri death row inmate Russell Bucklew is scheduled to die on Tuesday. But Bucklew suffers from a rare medical condition, and his lawyers say the execution drug that will be used could come with gruesome consequences and constitute cruel and unusual punishment. For nearly all his life, BucklewÃâà...
UMSL Daily (blog)
March 19, 2018
Reggie Griffin had his audience captivated as he told them about all the moments of hope followed by disappointment and ultimately desperation that spanned his roughly 23-year fight to get off Missouri's death row for a crime he didn't commit. With each appeal he imagined regaining the freedom he hadÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 18, 2018
Last summer, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens stayed the execution of Marcellus Williams, another death row inmate whose guilt is in doubt in the killing of a former newspaper reporter. Decades of study tell us that racial disparities in the meting out of justice continue to be systemic, and that the death penalty isÃâà...
Newsweek
March 15, 2018
The pending execution of a Missouri man convicted of murder would constitute torture because he has a medical condition that puts him at risk of ... And an Alabama death row inmate is asking that his death sentence be vacated after his attempted execution was “botched and bloody," according to CNN.
Aleteia EN
March 13, 2018
This is an account of the historic connections between slavery, lynching, and Missouri's “death row” along the Missouri River. The Missouri River runs across Missouri parallel, more or less, to Interstate 70. Highway and river intersect in many places as both amble across the state through the band of 13 orÃâà...
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