Nixon- Death row appeals dragging on
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Of the 55 men on Missouri's death row, seven have exhausted all their appeals. Attorney General Jay Nixon recently expressed some frustration over the fact that the Missouri Supreme Court has not responded to his request to set execution dates for those seven men. Nixon said one case -- involving Donald Jones of St. Louis, who was convicted of stabbing his grandmother to death in 1993 -- should have been settled two years ago.
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