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Three men were arrested in the 1989 killing of a woman in Missouri after someone came forward with a tip over three decades later, authorities said. A tip led to charges against 3 men in the 1989 ...
Missouri State Trooper James F. Froemsdorf 52 Michael S. Roberts White 27 M October 3, 2001 St. Louis: Mary L. Taylor 53 Stephen K. Johns White 55 M October 24, 2001 St. Louis City: Donald Voepel 54 James R. Johnson White 52 M January 9, 2002 Moniteau: 4 murder victims [l] 55 Michael I. Owsley Black 40 M February 6, 2002 Jackson: Elvin Iverson 56
The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9-year-old girl's 2007 murder. Missouri carried out its fourth execution this year on Tuesday night. The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9 ...
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 ...
Kevin Johnson Jr. (September 23, 1985 – November 29, 2022) was an American man executed in Missouri for the 2005 murder of police officer William McEntee. [1] Johnson's case has partly drawn attention because his daughter, Khorry Ramney, was not allowed to witness her father's execution due to her age (19), the same age Johnson was when he committed the crime for which he was sentenced to death.
Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson , in which the Supreme Court laid out its " separate but equal " legal doctrine concerning facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–1865.
Then 21, Johnson was convicted in 1995 of first-degree murder in the Oct. 30, 1994, nighttime shooting of Boyd, who was found on the porch of a brick home in St. Louis’ Dutchtown neighborhood.
Missouri top prosecutor asked a court Tuesday to put the brakes on releasing a woman from prison in a 1980 killing that her attorneys allege was committed by a now-discredited police officer.