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Former Kansas City police detective Eric DeValkenaere and his legal team hear his sentence at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing Friday, May 4, 2022. DeValkenaere was sentenced to six years ...
Attorneys for a man awaiting sentencing have filed a motion to declare part of Missouri’s law on the death penalty unconstitutional. In June, Ian McCarthy, 45, was found guilty of first-degree ...
An 86-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree assault in the 2023 shooting of a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell, according to prosecutors.
The next 61 executions starting with Gerald Smith were done at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri. [10] Since April 2005, executions have been 25 miles east of Potosi at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. The first execution at Bonne Terre was #63 Donald Jones.
Since 1989, a total of 101 people were executed by the State of Missouri. All were convicted of first-degree murder and all were executed by lethal injection, although lethal gas remains a legal method of execution. Before April 1989, all executions were carried out at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.
Andrew Daniel Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged on April 17, 2023, with armed criminal action and first-degree assault, the equivalent of attempted murder in Missouri. The Clay County district attorney stated that there was a "racial component" to the shooting. [3] If convicted, Lester faced 10 years to life in prison. [4]
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider Missouri’s long-shot bid to block former President Trump’s criminal sentencing and gag order in his hush money case. In a brief order, the ...
Under Missouri state law, should the Missouri Supreme Court issue a death warrant, an execution date would be set between 90 and 120 days from the date of the court order. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] On August 13, 2024, the Missouri Supreme Court approved the death warrant of Collings, scheduling his death sentence to be carried out on December 3, 2024.