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Appeals court grants hearing for Missouri inmate facing execution
By kansascity.com- Tony Rizzo
Published: 01/19/2017

A Missouri prison inmate scheduled to be executed later this month has been granted a court hearing to argue that he was “abandoned” by his former lawyers.

Mark Christeson is scheduled to be put to death on Jan. 31 for the 1999 killings of a woman and her two children near Rolla.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ordered a federal judge to “convene promptly a limited evidentiary hearing on the question of abandonment.”

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