KCUR 89.3 Kevin Strickland s name is not among the 36 people listed for pardon from Gov. Mike Parson on May 31.
Gov. Mike Parson could still choose to pardon Strickland, which would be exceedingly rare, but Strickland s legal team is pursuing other options for release and exoneration.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson passed on an opportunity to release a Kansas City man who has spent 43 years behind bars for a crime prosecutors say he did not commit. Parson left Kevin Strickland off the latest list of pardons.
The move leaves Kevin Strickland and his attorneys disappointed, and with fewer options for his exoneration. It s hard to imagine how everyone can know someone s innocent and he s still there, said Tricia Rojo Bushnell, director of the Midwest Innocence Project. At this point, no one with power has done the things to let him out.
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Despite being declared innocent by the prosecutor s office, Kevin Strickland is still doing time for a triple-murder that happened 43 years ago.
The decision means the state s high court will not settle questions about whether a person s innocence is enough to overturn a wrongful conviction.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider the innocence petition of a Kansas City man convicted of a triple-murder more than 40 years ago, despite the prosecutor’s claim that he has been wrongfully imprisoned.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker expressed disappointment with the high court’s decision in a statement Wednesday morning.
St. Louis Public Radio Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill answers questions while she was still serving in office during a town hall at Harris-Stowe State University in 2018. McCaskill has been an MSNBC political commentator since departing the Senate in 2019.
The last Missouri Democrat to win a U.S. Senate race talks about whether her party can succeed in the 2022 contest to replace U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.
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having served in office starting in 1982, former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said she’s now enjoying being a political commentator on MSNBC.
She said she was initially worried about what she would do with her time after losing to Republican Josh Hawley in 2018, adding that her life in politics was akin to being on a “hamster wheel” with a nonstop schedule and commitments. But the former Democratic official said she’s been busy and happy