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Agencies Start to Prepare for Middleton Execution

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That's the title of an article in Missouri's St. Joseph News-Press.  LINKJohn Middleton sits on Missouri?s death row, in full knowledge that daily he moves closer to an execution date. Mr. Middleton, 48, of Spickard, Mo., is one of two inmates the Missouri Department of Corrections recently identified as next in line for state executions. He was convicted for the murders of Alfred Pinegar, Stacy Hodge and Randy Hamilton in 1995. He is one of 47 capital punishment inmates held at the prison in Potosi, Mo., in the southeast part of the state. The Missouri Supreme Court has said it will set Mr. Middleton?s execution ?in due course.? Beyond that phrase, however, there is no indication of a date when he?ll be taken from his cell to the facility located in the prison at nearby Bonne Terre, Mo...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).