NewsApril 3, 2002
Supreme Court sets execution
The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A teen-ager when he killed an eastern Missouri woman, Christopher Simmons now is scheduled to be executed a few days after his 26th birthday. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday set a May 1 execution for Simmons, convicted of the Sept. 9, 1993, killing of Shirley Crook...
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A teen-ager when he killed an eastern Missouri woman, Christopher Simmons now is scheduled to be executed a few days after his 26th birthday.
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The state Supreme Court on Tuesday set a May 1 execution for Simmons, convicted of the Sept. 9, 1993, killing of Shirley Crook.
Simmons tied her up and drove her to a train trestle over the Meramec River.
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