The Latest Breaking News from Eric Greitens

Blue city, red state battle: Kansas City feuds over ‘colonial’ police system

Democratic city does not control its police force – and reform attempts have been thwarted by Republicans

The Guardian - US · Apr 12

Trump is the GOAT in swaying GOP races — and prediction markets say he’ll decide Texas this way

IN FOCUS: Betting markets think Trump’s will decide who to back in Texas soon enough. But, Eric Garcia flags, his batting average has significant caveats.

The Independent UK · Mar 8

St. Louis prosecutor spent weeks away from office while in nursing school, audit finds

A state audit of St. Louis’ former prosecutor found that she spent the equivalent of seven weeks in nursing school classes during office business hours

The Independent UK · Jan 8, 2025

Prof: Politics behind Missouri execution

Missouri executed Williams despite questions about his conviction and protests from prosecutors and victim's family

Salon · Sep 27, 2024

A Missouri man has been executed for a 1998 murder. Was he guilty or innocent?

Questions are still swirling around the execution of a Missouri man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2024

Did Missouri execute an innocent man? Marcellus Williams’s furious supporters decry ‘injustice system’

’How can you execute a man when there is reasonable doubt?’ Obie Alexander, who spent nearly two decades in prison on a wrongful murder conviction, toldThe Independent

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2024

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction

Williams long maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by victim’s family, jurors and office that tried him

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2024

Missouri to execute Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ objections and innocence claims

Prosecutors raise concerns about lack of evidence as family of victim supports saving Williams from the death penalty

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2024

Missouri Supreme Court to consider death row case a day before scheduled execution

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments as attorneys working on behalf of Marcellus Williams seek to save him, just a day before his scheduled execution

The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2024

Missouri man makes life-or-death effort to prove innocence before execution scheduled for next month

Testimony begins in a hearing with life-or-death implications for Missouri inmate Marcellus Williams

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2024