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Supreme Court, governor decline to stop Missouri execution
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The U.S. Supreme Courtroom on Monday declined to halt the upcoming execution of Missouri inmate Carman Deck, and Republican Gov. Mike Parson mentioned he won’t grant clemency.
Deck, 56, is scheduled to die by injection at 6 p.m. Tuesday on the state jail in Bonne Terre for killing a pair whereas robbing their rural house in July 1996.
“Mr. Deck has acquired due course of, and three separate juries of his friends have advisable sentences of demise for the brutal murders he dedicated,” Parson mentioned in a press release. “The State of Missouri will perform Mr. Deck’s sentence in keeping with the Courtroom’s order and ship justice.”
Deck’s legal professional, Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, declined to remark.
Solely 4 executions have been carried out within the U.S. thus far in 2022, and the 11 final yr have been the fewest since 1988. Earlier Monday, Tennessee Gov. Invoice Lee paused executions for the remainder of the yr to allow a evaluation of the state’s deadly injection procedures. That call got here after a testing oversight compelled the state to name off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour earlier than he was to die on April 21.
Deck, of the St. Louis space, admitted that he killed James Lengthy, 69, and his 67-year-old spouse, Zelma, whereas robbing them at their house within the japanese Missouri city of De Soto in July 1996.
Deck’s demise sentence was thrown out 3 times on account of procedural errors earlier than a federal appeals courtroom panel restored it in 2020.
The clemency petition on behalf of Deck cited abuse he suffered as a toddler, together with sexual abuse and beatings. It additionally mentioned he and his siblings typically have been left alone with out meals.
The variety of executions within the U.S. has declined considerably since peaking at 98 in 1998. The drop has coincided with a decline in public assist for capital punishment that has fallen from a excessive of 80% in 1994 to 54% in 2021, in keeping with Gallup polls. Because the mid-Nineteen Nineties, opposition to capital punishment has risen from below 20% to about 45%.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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