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Rural Missouri sheriff, 2 deputies arrested in kidnap plot
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Fri,03/17/23-11:08AM , 282 Reads
A rural Missouri sheriff and two deputies are jailed and facing charges accusing them of helping a man in a parental kidnapping plot.
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Lamar Johnson, center, and his attorneys react on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, after St. Louis Circuit Judge David Mason vacated his murder conviction during a hearing in St. Louis, Mo. Johnson served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn't commit. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool)

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Wrongfully convicted man, now free: ‘I was finally heard’
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Fri,02/17/23-3:24PM , 593 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped fighting to prove his innocence, even when it meant doing much of the legal work himself.
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Lamar Johnson, center and his attorneys react on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, after St. Louis Circuit Judge David Mason vacated his murder conviction during a hearing in St. Louis, Mo. Johnson served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn't commit. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool)

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Judge vacates conviction of man imprisoned nearly 3 decades
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Tue,02/14/23-1:48PM , 307 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn't commit.
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The Rev. Darryl Gray, left, and the Rev. Lauren Bennett speak in Bennett's office in St. Louis, Mo., on Jan. 10, 2023. Both served as spiritual advisers at recent executions in Missouri, sitting alongside the inmates and touching them as the process occurred. Spiritual advisers have been increasingly present during executions since a Supreme Court ruling last year. (AP Photo/Jim Salter

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Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Mon,02/06/23-9:06AM , 300 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick, soundproof glass as unidentified executioners administered the lethal chemical from behind a cinderblock wall.
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