"Mo. waits on high court as it preps for execution," is AP coverage by Jim Salter, via the Columbia Daily Tribune.
The state of Missouri waited for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule Wednesday on whether it could execute death row inmate Allen Nicklasson, condemned for the killing of a Good Samaritan who stopped to help him and two friends who were stranded on the side of the road.
The Supreme Court was expected to announce its decision Wednesday morning. The execution could be carried out at the state prison in Bonne Terre at any time Wednesday, according to Missouri statute.
Nicklasson, 41, had been scheduled to die by injection at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for the 1994 murder of businessman Richard Drummond, who was shot to death after he stopped to help when a car carrying Nicklasson and two others stalled in central Missouri.
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 U.S. Supreme Court.
Ealier coverage of Allen Nicklasson's case begins at the link.
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