U.S. Supreme Court Halts Missouri Inmate’s Execution
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 10/29/2014 8:01 AM
US News • October 2014 • Views: 936
The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed the scheduled execution of a Missouri man who was convicted of killing a woman and her two children in 1998.
The high court late Tuesday sided with Mark Christeson who claimed that his previous attorneys were inadequate.
Among other things, those attorneys missed a 2005 deadline for a federal court appeal of Christeson’s conviction and death sentence.
He had been scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.