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Missouri executes Skillicorn for 1994 murder

BONNE TERRE, Mo. | Dennis Skillicorn died from lethal injection early this morning, becoming the first Missouri prisoner to be executed in nearly four years and the 67th since 1989. Skillicorn, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:34 a.m. at the state?s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center. The Kansas City man was one of the ?Good Samaritan killers? who murdered Richard Drummond of Excelsior Springs, and later an Arizona couple in a 1994 crime-spree that stretched from Missouri to Mexico. Skillicorn had been on death row since his conviction in 1996. Prior to today, Missouri hadn?t carried out an execution since October 2005. In 2007, the state was one of several to delay executions pending the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case over the constitutionality of lethal injections...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).