An attorney for Leonard \u0022Raheem\u0022 Taylor is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the potential execution of an innocent man.
Taylor, 58, is scheduled to die at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, for the killings of his live-in girlfriend and her three young children nearly two decades ago. Attorney Kent Gipson’s motion asks the Supreme Court to grant a stay of execution and appoint a special master to review Taylor’s innocence claim. A similar request to the Missouri Supreme Court was turned aside late Monday.
Last month, Taylor’s attorneys petitioned St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell to ask a judge for a new hearing on the innocence claim, as allowed by a relatively new Missouri law. Bell declined, finding no “credible case of innocence.” On Monday, he reiterated his belief that the jury “got the verdict right.”.Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied a clemency request on Monday, dismissing Taylor’s “self-serving claim of innocence.
At Taylor’s trial, Medical Examiner Phillip Burch said the killings could have happened two or three weeks before the discovery of the bodies, long before Taylor’s trip to California.
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