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By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin is getting support from an unlikely source: Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who was paralyzed 35 years ago… Read more »
Tag: execution
Nixon received health concerns over execution drug
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Health care workers, medical groups and even a few patients pressured Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon before he halted what would have been… Read more »
Missouri switches to new execution drug
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The Missouri Department of Corrections said Tuesday it is switching to a new lethal injection drug, less than two weeks after the governor… Read more »
Larry Flynt doesn’t want man who shot him executed
(LOS ANGELES, AP) — Porn publisher Larry Flynt says he doesn’t want to see the serial killer whose gunshots left him paralyzed 35 years ago put to death for his… Read more »
Mo. looks at other states’ death penalty methods
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — In deciding to not be the first in the nation to use the anesthetic propofol for capital punishment, Gov. Jay Nixon left Missouri… Read more »
Mo. governor halts execution
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday halted what was to have been the first U.S. execution to use the popular anesthetic propofol, following… Read more »
Mo. returning execution drug year after demand
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The Missouri Department of Corrections said Wednesday that it will return a shipment of a common anesthetic it intended to use for executions,… Read more »
Governor: Europe won’t block 2 Mo. executions
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, Mo., AP) — Missouri will move ahead with two planned executions despite efforts in Europe to block a common anesthetic from being used in… Read more »
Mo. senator to Nixon: Consider gas chamber
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — A Missouri state senator is calling on Gov. Jay Nixon to consider budgeting money for a gas chamber, citing concerns about the state’s… Read more »
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