Missouri Supreme Court rejects execution delay

Monday, May 18, 2009 | 3:49 p.m. CDT; updated 3:57 p.m. CDT, Monday, May 18, 2009
BY The Associated Press

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court has denied a request to delay the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the slaying of a Good Samaritan 15 years ago.

Dennis Skillicorn is to be executed at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for the 1994 killing of Richard Drummond, who stopped to help when Skillicorn's car broke down. It started a multistate crime rampage.

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Skillicorn's attorneys sought to delay the execution so they could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that request was denied Monday. The denial came several hours after a former inmate and ministers who worked with Skillicorn held a news conference in the Capitol asking for clemency from the governor.

Former inmate Jack Pyle says he eventually turned his life around after regularly talking with Skillicorn.

 

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