Circuit court to interpret recent death penalty ruling
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- One day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, are to decide whether to impose the death penalty, Missouri's highest court left the interpretation of the ruling up to a circuit judge.
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