Friday, October 28, 2011

Shepherdsville Jury Recommends Death Sentence

{Shepherdsville, Kentucky}... Friday, jurors in Shepherdsville recommended a death sentence for Michael Dale St. Clair, an inmate who escaped from an Oklahoma prison, then killed a Kentucky man in 1991. St. Clair had been convicted of killing Frank Brady, a distillery worker from Bardstown, but won a new sentencing when the Kentucky Supreme Court found errors in his trial. During a weeklong hearing, jurors heard a fellow inmate, who escaped with St. Clair, testify about other slayings prosecutors say St. Clair committed, but hasn't been charged with. St. Clair was charged with murder in Bullitt County. He faces a retrial in Hardin County on a kidnapping charge after the high court overturned that conviction. Sentencing is scheduled for November 16th.