For the 2nd time in less than a month, the Missouri Supreme Court gives a reprieve to a death row inmate.
John Middleton was scheduled to die by injection Sept. 17th for the 1995 shooting deaths of three people in northwest Missouri. But on Wednesday, the state Supreme Court issued a stay of execution and set an Oct. 7th date to hear oral arguments on a legal challenge filed by Middleton and other inmates and death penalty opponents.
On Aug. 20th, the state Supreme Court postponed the scheduled Aug. 27th execution of Dennis Skillicorn by at least 30 days after his attorneys claimed prison officials obstructed efforts to prepare a clemency petition.
Missouri has not executed an inmate since 2005 as courts weighed concerns over the constitutionality of lethal injection.
(source: Associated Press)
John Middleton was scheduled to die by injection Sept. 17th for the 1995 shooting deaths of three people in northwest Missouri. But on Wednesday, the state Supreme Court issued a stay of execution and set an Oct. 7th date to hear oral arguments on a legal challenge filed by Middleton and other inmates and death penalty opponents.
On Aug. 20th, the state Supreme Court postponed the scheduled Aug. 27th execution of Dennis Skillicorn by at least 30 days after his attorneys claimed prison officials obstructed efforts to prepare a clemency petition.
Missouri has not executed an inmate since 2005 as courts weighed concerns over the constitutionality of lethal injection.
(source: Associated Press)
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