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| Inmates seek IDs of executioners |
| By St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| Published: 01/21/2008 |
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MISSOURI - Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to provide the names of members of its execution team after a Post-Dispatch investigation revealed that one was a convicted stalker. In papers filed last week in federal court in Kansas City, the lawyers said the executioner's criminal record, detailed in a front-page story Jan. 13, raises questions about his "temperament and suitability" to help with executions. The newspaper reported that David L. Pinkley, a licensed practical nurse then on probation, worked on Missouri executions and was permitted to join a federal team that executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in Indiana in 2001. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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