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Capital Punishment

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Vernell Loggins Jr.: Convicted of Killing, Dismembering Girlfriend

    Killer could face lethal injection. ​A jury yesterday recommended the death penalty for Vernell Loggins Jr., a trucker from suburban St. Louis who captured headlines in 2009 when his girlfriend's dismembered body was found outside the Pacific apartment complex where the two lived.A maintenance wor ... More >>

  • Film

    January 5, 2012

    Dark Valedictory: The Webster University Film Series revives an obscure made-in-St.-Louis masterpiece

    Killer could face lethal injection. ​A jury yesterday recommended the death penalty for Vernell Loggins Jr., a trucker from suburban St. Louis who captured headlines in 2009 when his girlfriend's dismembered body was found outside the Pacific apartment complex where the two lived.A maintenance wor ... More >>

  • Film

    November 24, 2011

    After the murders, before the death penalty, Into the Abyss

    Killer could face lethal injection. ​A jury yesterday recommended the death penalty for Vernell Loggins Jr., a trucker from suburban St. Louis who captured headlines in 2009 when his girlfriend's dismembered body was found outside the Pacific apartment complex where the two lived.A maintenance wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Reginald Griffin, Convicted Murderer, Gets Sentence Overturned -- 25 Years Later

    It was a different inmate -- with a screwdriver, argued Reginald Griffin. Today, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that he deserves another trial.​Twenty-five years after he was convicted of murdering a fellow inmate in a Missouri prison, Reginald Griffin has gotten a major reprieve from the Missou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    True Crime Archive: St. Louis Murderer Dipped Fried Chicken in Victim's Blood, Ate It

    According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, Elroy Preston is known in prison as the "Chicken Man." ​We hadn't heard about it, either. That is, until yesterday when we were thumbing through the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's spring newsletter. This issue of the newsletter is mostly about str ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Christopher Coleman Found Guilty; Jury To Consider Death Penalty Today

    Coleman will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.​If you're among the 13 percent of Daily RFT readers who predicted it would take two days for the jury to reach its verdict on Christopher Coleman, congratulations. You should apply for a legal analysis job with truTV. After deliberating sin ... More >>

  • Music

    April 14, 2011

    Crocodiles

    9 p.m. Tuesday, April 19. The Billiken Club, 20 North Grand Boulevard in the Busch Student Center at Saint Louis University.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    "King Zeus" Pleads Guilty to Rape and Murder of Alton Grandmother

    Image ViaSandra Wood​Perry Henderson, a convicted felon who refers to himself as "King Zeus," pleaded guilty yesterday to the tragic rape and murder of 73-year-old Sandra Wood this past December. Wood, a retired educator and active environmental and political volunteer, was alone in her Alton home ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Illinois Abolishes Death Penalty = Chris Coleman Staying Earthbound For Now

    New law could spare Chris Coleman's life.​Illinois Governor Pat Quinn yesterday signed a bill permanently abolishing the death penalty in his state and commuting the sentences of all thirteen people currently on death row. They now face life in prison without the possibility of parole.The new Illi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Day 1: Light's Just Right

    Editor's note: Aspiring photojournalist and Gut Check contributor Kholood Eid is chronicling her Ramadan fast in diary form. Kholood Eid​Every year my non-Muslim friends groan, "Not that again! Already?" Yes, it's here -- again. Ramadan. For 30 days Muslims around the world fast from just b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    F15teen? F36teen Is More Like It

    My colleague Chad Garrison is all over the fallout from Monday's shootings downtown. The city is taking steps to strip three business of their liquor licenses -- essentially, a death sentence. Those businesses include one prominent restaurant, F15teen (1900 Locust Street, 314-588-8899), the steakhou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Ohio Finally Tries Out New Execution Method RFT Wrote About Five Years Ago

    Susan Sanford​Earlier today Ohio prison officials executed a death row inmate with an injection of a single drug, rather than the three-chemical intravenous series that has been used throughout the U.S. since lethal injection came to prominence in the 1970s.Five years ago RFT staff write ... More >>

  • Music

    September 2, 2009

    Curtis Salgado

    8 p.m. Thursday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    I'll Probably Die in That Chair: Legendary St. Louis attorney Frank Anzalone can't envision a time when he'll no longer be practicing law

    8 p.m. Thursday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    John Waters Really Likes Levi Palin

    8 p.m. Thursday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Film

    July 16, 2008

    Showcase Short Cuts

    8 p.m. Thursday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Lethal Injection Gets Its Day in Court

    8 p.m. Thursday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2007

    Sad News

    8 p.m. Thursday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    How Does It Feel?

    Recent lawsuits puncture the veil of secrecy surrounding lethal injection

  • Film

    March 22, 2006

    Suspended Sentence

    After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction

  • News

    October 12, 2005

    Numb and Number

    Legal challenges shed light on Missouri's lethal-injection protocols

  • Music

    September 7, 2005

    Bloody Hollies

    If Footmen Tire You (Alive)

  • Music

    June 15, 2005

    Various Artists

    The Very Best of Death Row (The Row)

  • News

    February 23, 2005

    Life After Death Row

    From maximum security in Potosi to a bungalow in Maplewood: The odyssey of Rabbit, a.k.a. Robert Driscoll

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Letters

    Week of December 29, 2004

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Uncomfortably Numb

    Lethal injection looks painless and peaceful. On Missouri's death row, appearances can be deceiving.

  • Culture

    November 17, 2004

    Not Guilty

    HotCity Theatre debuts with a polemic -- and how!

  • News

    November 3, 2004

    A Shot in the Arm

    A federal appeals court says Darryl Burton might very well be innocent of the 1984 murder of Donald Ball. But there's nothing they can do about it.

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2003

    Sports Trivia Saved Our Town

    Speaking Frankly

  • Music

    July 16, 2003

    The Pine Valley Cosmonauts

    The Executioner's Last Songs, Volumes 2 & 3 (Bloodshot)

  • News

    July 2, 2003

    Best Evidence

    George Allen claims police made him confess to rape and murder. Twenty years after Allen was convicted, his last hope hinges on a DNA test.

  • Film

    February 19, 2003

    Gale Farce

    Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

  • News

    December 25, 2002

    Behind Closed Doors

    Once open to the world, Missouri's death row is now secret

  • News

    July 10, 2002

    So Long, Joe

    While Joe Amrine waits to die, Missouri courts won't admit they may be wrong

  • Music

    June 26, 2002

    Pine Valley Cosmonauts and Guests

    The Executioner's Last Songs (Bloodshot)

  • Calendar

    April 3, 2002

    Brother's Keeper

    David Kaczynski talks about the decision that tore his family apart

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 26, 2001

    Best Slam Poet

    Zaire Imani

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    They've Got the Wrong Martyr

    Tragic as his story might be, convicted killer isn't living in a perfect world

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    The Big Payback

    With this presidential debate, the highlights didn't come from Bush or Gore

  • News

    August 16, 2000

    The Benetton Four

    Meet the men who sparked a lawsuit

  • News

    August 16, 2000

    Killer Campaign

    When the Benetton clothing company dared to humanize death-row inmates in a $20 million ad campaign, Attorney General Jay Nixon threw a fit. Then he played right into their hands and sued them.

  • Film

    March 15, 2000

    Mr. Death

    Directed by Errol Morris

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    Murder, They Advertised

    Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon speaks out against Benetton's "We, on Death Row" ad supplement featuring Missouri inmates; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    PAPAL BULL NOT ENOUGH

    Senate candidate and Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan may have commuted a death sentence, but St. Louis-area Catholics won't be letting him off the hook on the abortion issue

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    IS JOHN ASHCROFT A RACIST, OR DOES HE JUST PLAY ONE ON TV?

    Senate candidate and Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan may have commuted a death sentence, but St. Louis-area Catholics won't be letting him off the hook on the abortion issue

  • News

    September 1, 1999

    Just Say No to Naomi

    The city's finest join a boycott of supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    MORE DEATHLY POLITICS FROM JOHN ASHCROFT

    The city's finest join a boycott of supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    Burned

    Ellen Reasonover has served 16 years of a life sentence for murder. But new evidence -- a secret tape and a forgotten memo -- suggests that the prosecution may have committed the real crime.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Inhumane Society

    St. Louis scores failing grades on a report card of compliance with the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Justice for All

    St. Louis scores failing grades on a report card of compliance with the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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