A Missouri man convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children has been executed after the courts and Gov. Mike Parson turned aside his claim that he was in another state when the killings occurred.
FILE - This booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Leonard Taylor. Attorneys for Taylor, a Missouri man scheduled to be executed in February 2023, are seeking a new hearing, citing sworn statements they call clear and convincing evidence that he did not kill his girlfriend and her three children.
“Death is not your enemy, it is your destiny. Look forward to meeting it. Peace!” he wrote in the statement. for a hearing before a judge, stating the “facts are not there to support a credible case of innocence.”on Monday, the same day the Missouri Supreme Court denied a stay request. Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene.
There was no question that Taylor was not in Missouri when the bodies were found. What isn’t known for certain is when the family was killed. The initial finding by a medical examiner was that the killings likely happened within a few days of the discovery of the bodies — when Taylor was in California. But at Taylor’s trial, Medical Examiner Phillip Burch said the killings could have happened two or three weeks before the discovery of the bodies.
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