JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday set a February execution date for a suburban St. Louis man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her three younger youngsters almost 18 years in the past.
Leonard Taylor is scheduled to be executed on Feb. 7 on the state jail in Bonne Terre. He was convicted in 2008 within the capturing deaths of Angela Rowe, 28, and her three youngsters, Alexis, 10; AcQreya, 6; and Tyrese Conley, 5. Their our bodies had been discovered of their residence in Jennings on Dec. 3, 2004.
In Could 2022, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom declined to listen to Jennings’ case, resulting in the setting of an execution date.
Taylor’s execution would come a couple of month after one other convicted killer is scheduled to die. Scott McLaughlin, who was convicted of raping and killing an ex-girlfriend 19 years in the past, is scheduled for execution on Jan. 3.
One other convicted killer, Kevin Johnson, faces the demise penalty on Nov. 29 for killing Kirkwood Police Sgt. Invoice McEntee in suburban St. Louis in 2005.
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