Category: innocence

No New Hearing on Condemned Missouri Man’s Innocence Claim

ST. LOUIS—The attorney for a Missouri man facing lethal injection next week said Tuesday that he will ask the state Supreme Court to postpone the execution by three or four months to allow more time to investigate his innocence claim. Leonard Taylor, 58, faces execution Feb. 7 for the deaths of his girlfriend and her…


Hearing Sought for Man Facing Execution Who Claims Innocence

ST. LOUIS—Attorneys for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed next month are seeking a new hearing, citing sworn statements they call “clear and convincing evidence” that he didn’t kill his girlfriend and her three children. Leonard Taylor, 58, is scheduled to die by injection Feb. 7 for the 2004 killings of Angela Rowe, 28,…