Criminal Law
: Crime Scene KCSeriously, how soon can we have the execution?
By James Hart (all)
Remember Joseph Edward Duncan III? He's the guy who killed an Idaho woman, her fiance and her son, then kidnapped the family's two youngest kids -- one of whom he sexually tortured and killed while the other watched. I've already...
Full post as published by Crime Scene KC on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).

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