Reginald Clemons gets to live a little longer

Missouri just pushed the “pause” button on executing any more prisoners, which is all too late for Dennis Skillicorn. The Missouri Supreme Court isn’t booking any more executions since the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals slapped a federal stay on Reginald Clemons‘ date with the needle (Clemons’ attorneys challenged Missouri’s legal injection procedures to be sure executions are pain-free).

“We’re back on hold,” incoming Chief Justice William Price Jr. told the Associated Press.

Clemons was sentenced to die in 1991 for the murders of Julie and Robin Kerry, who were 20 and 19. Prosecutors claimed Clemons and three men robbed the girls, raped them and pushed them off Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis. The young women died in the Mississippi River.