NewsSeptember 5, 2014
Attorneys: Race played role in death row case
ST. LOUIS -- Attorneys for Missouri death row inmate Earl Ringo Jr. are asking Gov. Jay Nixon to halt the execution scheduled for next week over concerns race was a factor in Ringo's conviction and death sentence. Ringo, who is black, was convicted of killing two people in a Columbia, Missouri, restaurant robbery in 1998. Attorney Kay Parish says Ringo was tried by a white judge and sentenced to death by an all-white jury...
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ST. LOUIS -- Attorneys for Missouri death row inmate Earl Ringo Jr. are asking Gov. Jay Nixon to halt the execution scheduled for next week over concerns race was a factor in Ringo's conviction and death sentence.
Ringo, who is black, was convicted of killing two people in a Columbia, Missouri, restaurant robbery in 1998. Attorney Kay Parish says Ringo was tried by a white judge and sentenced to death by an all-white jury.
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Her request to Nixon on Thursday also asks the governor appoint an independent board of inquiry to examine the role race played in the case.
Ringo is scheduled to die by injection at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. He would be the ninth Missouri inmate executed since November.
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