On Monday, Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied a clemency petition, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to intervene ...
Missouri carried out its fourth execution this year on Tuesday night. The man condemned to death was convicted in a ...
(Missouri Department of Corrections via AP ... Collings was a friend of Rowan's stepfather, David Spears, and lived for ...
NEWTON COUNTY, Mo. — With the impending execution of convicted child-killer Christopher Collings, the spotlight shifts to his co-defendant, Rowan Ford’s step-father, David Spears. Spears ...
A clemency petition for a Missouri man facing the death penalty for sexually assaulting and killing a child says he was a ...
(Missouri Department of Corrections via AP ... Rowan’s stepfather, David Spears, also confessed but was allowed to plead to lesser crimes. Spears served more than seven years in prison before ...
The sexual assault and murder of Rowan Ford in 2007 rocked the southwestern town of Stella, Missouri. On Tuesday, the man ...
The State of Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Collings by lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 2007 ...
Collings was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Rowan Ford, his friend David Spears' 9-year-old stepdaughter, in a crime that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and others have ...
A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for sexually ... he drank heavily and smoked marijuana with Rowan’s stepfather, David Spears, and another man in the hours before the attack on Rowan ...
The execution was the 23rd in the U.S. this year and the fourth in Missouri. Only Alabama with ... Collings was a friend of Rowan’s stepfather, David Spears, and lived for several months in ...