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Southeast Missourian
December 11, 2016
In State Vs Skillicorn, attorneys for Dennis Skillicorn argued that a statement made by Skillicorn's accomplice, Allen Nicklasson, to an FBI agent was admissible because it was against Nicklasson's interest. Skillicorn was convicted of murdering a man in a field east of Higginsville. The federal court found thatÃâà...
The Marshall Project
September 9, 2015
Russell Bucklew's execution tonight was halted by US Supreme Court temporary stay. The execution of Russell Bucklew scheduled for today in Missouri has been stayed. ... We know that the last person to be executed was Ruben Ramirez Cardenas, who died four months and 17 days ago by lethal injection in Texas.
Pitch Weekly
January 21, 2014
At 10:52 p.m. December 11, the Missouri Department of Corrections executed Allen Nicklasson with a single, lethal drug dripped into the convicted murderer's veins. Just before the dose was administered, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster issued a statement to the media saying that "the highest courtÃâà...
CBS News
December 12, 2013
It was the second execution in Missouri in three weeks after a nearly three-year hiatus. Racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Nov. ... While in rehab in 1994, he crossed paths with Dennis Skillicorn, who had been recently released from prison following a second-degree murder convictionÃâà...
CBS News
December 11, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a man convicted of raping and murdering two elderly women in the 1980s. ... Another man, Robert Lee Miller Jr., had originally confessed to the rape and murder of the two women and served 11 years, seven on death row, before DNA evidence ledÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 9, 2013
On Wednesday morning, the man who killed Drummond along a mid-Missouri road in 1994 is scheduled to be executed. Barring a ... The state executed co-defendant Dennis Skillicorn in 2009. ... Arrested later in California, they ultimately were convicted and sentenced to death in Drummond's murder.
STLtoday.com
November 11, 2013
Flynt, represented by a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, sued Saturday in federal court in Kansas City. He invoked a First Amendment right to view sealed documents that might identify an anesthesiologist on the execution team. Flynt argues that he has an interest because of hisÃâà...
Riverfront Times (blog)
July 3, 2013
As we reported on Monday, Koster is calling on the court to set dates for two men on death row, arguing that the state's supply of propofol, the execution drug, will soon expire. And if the drugs do expire before the men are executed, the next and only option may be the gas chamber, which hasn't been usedÃâà...
New York Times
May 18, 2009
His supporters say that while he participated in robbing Mr. Drummond and was convicted of murder, another man (now also awaiting execution) was the one who fired the gun that killed Mr. Drummond. They point to Mr. Skillicorn's work in prison leading a hospice program, editing a magazine for death rowÃâà...
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