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| High court clears way for execution of Missouri inmate |
| By aikenstandard.com - Jim Salter |
| Published: 12/13/2013 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the state of Missouri in its bid to execute a man convicted of shooting a good Samaritan who stopped to help the Kansas City man and two friends who were stranded on the side of a highway in 1994. The Supreme Court announced its decision late Wednesday night, and corrections officials moved quickly to prepare for the execution of Allen Nicklasson at its prison in Bonne Terre. Missouri uses a lethal injection of the sedative pentobarbital to execute inmates. The state used the drug for the first time in last month's execution of serial killer Joseph Franklin. Nicklasson, 41, had been scheduled to die by injection at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay Tuesday over concerns about Nicklasson's legal representation. When the full appeals court refused to take up the case on Tuesday, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster appealed to the Supreme Court. “In the last nineteen years, Nicklasson has filed appeals or challenges to his convictions numerous times, in five different courts,” Koster wrote in the appeal to the high court. “The time for enforcement of Missouri's criminal judgment against Allen L. Nicklasson is long, long overdue.” Read More. |
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