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Potosi Correctional Center
Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Mineral Point. The facility currently houses 800 death row, maximum security and high-risk male inmates. The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison. In 1989 it had about 200 prisoners.Lombardi, George, Richard D. Sluder, and Donald Wallace.The Management of Death-Sentenced Inmates: Issues, Realities, and Innovative Strategies." Missouri Department of Corrections. 8-9. Retrieved on September 18, 2010. Shortly after the prison's opening, the majority of the non-death row prisoners at Potosi were serving long sentences, such as life imprisonment without parole, or sentences with a 50-year minimum before parole eligibility. A small number had shorter sentences.Lombardi, George, Richard D. Sluder, and Donald Wallace.The Management of Death-Sentenced Inmates: Issues, Realities, and Innovative Strategies." Missouri Departm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mineral Point, Missouri
Mineral Point is a village in Washington County, Missouri, Washington County, Missouri, United States. The population was 351 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Mineral Point had its start in the 1850s as a lead-mining settlement. The community owes its name to the wealth of minerals found in the vicinity. Mineral Point was situated along the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. A post office has been in operation at Mineral Point since 1858. Geography Mineral Point is located at (37.945181, -90.724493). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 351 people, 124 households, and 85 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 131 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 92.0% White (U.S. Census), White, 4.6% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.3% Native American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Killing
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing is the murder of an individual, either an outsider or a member of a family, by someone seeking to protect what they see as the dignity and honor of themselves or their family. Honor killings are often connected to religion, caste and other forms of hierarchical social stratification, or to sexuality. Most often, it involves the murder of a woman or girl by male family members, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought dishonor or shame upon the family name, reputation or prestige. Honor killings are believed to have originated from tribal customs. They are prevalent in various parts of the world, as well as in immigrant communities in countries which do not otherwise have societal norms that encourage honor killings. Honor killings are often associated with rural and tribal areas, but they occur in urban areas too. Although condemned by international conventions and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning news-talk show ''Good Morning America'', ''Nightline'', ''Primetime (American TV program), Primetime'', and ''20/20 (American TV program), 20/20'', and Sunday morning talk shows, Sunday morning political affairs program ''This Week (ABC TV series), This Week with George Stephanopoulos''. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. History Early years ABC began in 1943 as the Blue Network, NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was Corporate spin-off, spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Lingar
Stanley Dewaine Lingar (April 16, 1963 – February 7, 2001) was a prisoner executed for the January 6, 1985, murder of 16-year-old high school junior Thomas Scott Allen in Ripley County, Missouri. The case generated controversy over allegations that anti-gay bias led to Lingar's death sentence. Murder of Thomas Allen On the evening of January 5, 1985, Lingar and his friend, Dave Smith, were drinking alcohol and driving around Doniphan, Missouri. They saw Thomas Allen's jeep, which had run out of gas, parked at the side of the road. They offered to take him to a gas station and he accepted. After driving out of town, Lingar ordered Allen to undress. He then ordered Allen to masturbate, but Allen was too frightened to do so. Lingar then drove to his parents' home to retrieve a Winchester .22-caliber rifle. He then drove to a rural area, pointed the gun at Allen and again ordered him to masturbate. Allen asked to get out of the car to urinate, which Lingar and Smith allowed him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Michael Roberts
Roy Michael "Hog" Roberts (December 18, 1952 – March 10, 1999) was executed in Missouri by lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional Center, for assisting the murder of a correctional officer named Tom Jackson in Missouri's Moberly Correctional Center in July 1983. A 2005 investigation was opened to investigate the possibility of Roberts' innocence. No physical evidence connected Roberts to the crime. Four eyewitnesses, including three corrections officers, testified that Roberts had participated in the murder, while nine witnesses, including another corrections officer, had testified that Roberts had been elsewhere at the moment of the stabbing.Huff, C. Ronald. ''Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice.'' Temple University Press. p. 109. See also * Capital punishment in Missouri * Capital punishment in the United States * List of people executed in Missouri This is a list of people executed by lethal injection in Missouri, comprising 95 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin Malone
Kelvin Shelby Malone (January 10, 1961 – January 13, 1999) was an American spree killer who murdered at least four people in March 1981. Convicted of three murders but suspected in five; he was sentenced to death in both California and Missouri in 1983 and 1984 respectively. He remained on death row at San Quentin State Prison until he was extradited to Missouri in December 1998 to face execution. He was executed in January 1999 at the Potosi Correctional Center via lethal injection. Early life Malone was born on January 10, 1961, in Seaside, California. He grew up near Monterey but had relatives in Missouri in the St. Louis area. As such, he moved states and lived there for some time during his youth. He attended Brentwood High School in St. Louis County, where he met Michael Terry Crenshaw. According to Crenshaw, when he first met Malone he was calm, however, after Malone went on a trip to California in 1978, he returned a different person, and wanted to get involved in gang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert O'Neal (murderer)
Robert Earl O'Neal Jr. (September 25, 1961 – December 6, 1995) was an American white supremacist and convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Missouri for the February 1984 murder of Arthur Dade, a 33-year-old black American man. O'Neal, who was serving a life sentence for the robbery and murder of 78-year-old Ralph Roscoe Sharick, stabbed Dade to death at the Missouri State Penitentiary. For the latter murder, O'Neal was sentenced to death and executed in 1995 at the Potosi Correctional Center via lethal injection. O'Neal is notable for being the only white person to be executed for killing a black person in the history of modern Missouri. Murders Ralph Roscoe Sharick On July 6, 1979, O'Neal and his accomplice, John E. Boggs, broke into the home of Doctor J. Larry Dowell in Strafford, Missouri. While burglarizing the home, Dowell's father-in-law, 78-year-old Ralph Roscoe Sharick, who lived in a trailer home behind the house, entered the property after hearing a dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used '' AP Stylebook''. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony LaRette
Anthony Joe LaRette Jr. (October 1, 1951 – November 29, 1995) was an American serial killer and rapist. Convicted of one murder in St. Charles, Missouri in 1980, he later confessed to thirty-one murders in eleven states dating back to the late 1960s, fifteen of which were closed based on information provided by him. Sentenced to death for his sole conviction, LaRette was executed in 1995. Murders In August 1976, LaRette, posing as one "Mike Watson", registered in two separate motels while staying in Marathon, Florida. On August 20, he broke into the home of 26-year-old Jeanette "Mickey" Wade, who had just returned from work. After realizing she had come back, he confronted the woman in the kitchen and stabbed her multiple times before finally cutting her throat. LaRette then left the scene and hitchhiked out of the city, and despite a witness providing a description of the supposed assailant, he was not caught. Three days later, now in St. Petersburg, he noticed 52-year-old B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Journal (Missouri)
The ''Daily Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Park Hills, Missouri, United States.It covers local news in the counties of St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Reynolds, Jefferson, Madison, Iron and Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o .... History ''The Leadwood Press'' was founded on January 10, 1930, by Rev. S.M. Brumfield. In 1935, the paper was moved to Flat River. In 1940, it was published three times a week under the name the ''St Francois County Journal''. On September 3, 1946, the St Francois County ''Daily Journal'' was published for the first time. Noah A. Grieg was a big part of the paper becoming a daily publication. Madison County's newspaper, the ''Democrat News'', also ran in the area as well. Later on, the ''Democrat News'' was bought by Lee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Griffin
Larry Griffin (September 23, 1954 – June 21, 1995) was sentenced to death for the murder of 19-year-old Quintin Moss in St. Louis, Missouri on the afternoon of June 26, 1980. Moss was killed in a drive-by shooting while allegedly dealing drugs on a street corner. Death Appeals courts upheld his conviction and death sentence. Griffin was executed by lethal injection on June 21, 1995. Griffin maintained his innocence right up to his execution. Re-opened investigation After Griffin's execution, a 2005 post-execution investigation was sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This NAACP investigation raised doubts about the conviction (specifically as to the shooter's identity), and subsequently caused an investigation by the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office. The St. Louis City investigation ended in a finding that "the right person was convicted". See also * Capital punishment in Missouri * Capital punishment in the United States * List of people execute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
