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Lots of dynamic death penalty debates in Missouri, while other states execute

By Douglas A. Berman

This new article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, headlined "Legal challenges over, Missouri plans to resume executions next week," provides details on the latest death penalty developments in the Show Me State.  Here are a few of the interesting details: After more than three years of wrangling over how Missouri's executioners should deliver the lethal injection ? and who is qualified to do it ? the state is gearing up for the death penalty again. With questions about the state's method of capital punishment settled, the debate has shifted to whether the first man in line should be spared. Dennis Skillicorn, 49, is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for a role in the 1994 murder of Richard Drummond. With appeals running out, Skillicorn's last hope may be Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).