Federal court stays St. Louis man's execution

Saturday, June 6, 2009 | 3:31 p.m. CDT; updated 5:54 p.m. CDT, Saturday, June 6, 2009

ST. LOUIS — A federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Friday for a man convicted in the 1991 deaths of two young women who were forced off an abandoned St. Louis bridge into the Mississippi River.

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