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UPDATE: Missouri GOP leader urges commutation of death sentence

By CHRIS BLANK/The Associated PressMay 13, 2009 | 5:32 p.m. CDTJEFFERSON CITY ? House Majority Leader Steven Tilley said Wednesday that Gov. Jay Nixon should commute the death sentence of a Missouri man who is scheduled to be executed May 20.Tilley, one of the chamber's top Republican leaders, urged the Democratic governor to change Dennis Skillicorn's sentence to life in prison.Tilley's comments came as the House debated ? and ultimately defeated ? a measure that would have placed a moratorium on executions until 2012.Skillicorn was one of three men convicted of killing Excelsior Springs businessman Richard Drummond in 1994, after Drummond stopped along Interstate 70 to help when their car stalled. The man who pulled the trigger, Allen Nicklasson, also has been sentenced to death and has said that Skillicorn didn't kill Drummond...continue to full post

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