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A warrant of execution for David Russell Hosier, 69, will go into effect on June 11. He was convicted of first-degree murder in a 2009 shooting.
After the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting Wednesday afternoon, Google Trends showed people were searching to see if Missouri still had the death penalty.
The proposed bill would allow for nitrogen gas to be used in executions and make it the latest state to adopt the practice after Alabama put a man to death using it.
What astonishes me is that decent people carry out these executions. I know it is possible. I just don’t understand how they can sleep at night.
Texas officials have denied parole for the only defendant to receive a life sentence in a 1993 hate crime that ended in the death of a Tyler man who was gay. David McMillan, formerly of Flint, became eligible for parole in December after serving 30 years for kidnapping Nicholas West and robbing him of his money, watch, and his truck.