Man Faces Possible Death Sentence

{Kentucky}...In a Kentucky courtroom Tuesday, Michael Dale St. Clair opted to let his attorneys question 51 year old Dennis Gene Reese. St. Clair is facing a possible death sentence in the 1991 slaying of Francis "Frank" Brady of Bardstown. Since first being convicted in 1998, the Kentucky Supreme Court has returned St. Clair for either a new trial or sentencing three times, most recently in April 2010, when it upheld his conviction but overturned the death sentence. Because only the penalty is in question, jurors were being asked only to decide if St. Clair should be sentenced to death or life in prison. St. Clair also faces a retrial in Brady's death in neighboring Hardin County, after the Kentucky Supreme Court overturned the conviction there. During his testimony, Reese laid out a story of how he and St. Clair escaped from a jail in Durant, Oklahoma, in September 1991, and went on a multi-state crime and killing spree through Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana and Tennessee that ended with Brady's death in October 1991.