Federal judge grants Missouri stay of execution
June 12, 2014
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A federal judge has granted a stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate John Winfield, less than a week before his scheduled execution.
Winfield was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing two St. Louis County women in 1996.
One of several court appeals on his behalf cited concerns that a corrections department employee who initially wanted to write a clemency letter on Winfield’s behalf decided not to after intimidation by prison officials.