More than a mention

In light of the high profile of the impending execution of Dennis Skillicorn, I have uploaded an excerpt from my interview last week with Joplin Rep. Marilyn Ruestman (this was at the end of the third interview posted here on 14 May). I must note that I did not ask other state legislators about this particular case or the death penalty in general.

Rep. Ruestman's comments on the death penalty (excerpt from interview posted last week)

Governor Nixon had denied Skillicorn's appeal at 6 p.m. (note that he was Attorney General when the Carnahan administration sent Missouri upward to number three in the nation for executions; again, Missouri has since receded to fifth.) and has also asked Missourians to offer prayers to the families of the four victims whom Skillicorn has been convicted of, or plead guilty, to killing.

Additionally, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito also promptly denied a stay of execution.

And the same scene will likely repeat itself next month when Reginald Clemons, one of four men convicted of killing two women on the Chain of Rocks Bridge that once carried Route 66 across the Mississippi, is now scheduled for execution.