Man Gets Death Sentence

{Elizabethtown, Kentucky}...Kentucky prosecutors have been working for two decades to make a death sentence stick against 55 year old Michael Dale St. Clair. They succeeded Wednesday in persuading Special Judge Thomas O. Castlen in Elizabethtown to apply that penalty against St. Clair for the 1991 kidnapping  of Francis "Frank" Brady of Bardstown, a distillery worker who was found shot to death in Bullitt County. Prosecutors had sought a death sentence in Hardin County because that's where Brady was last seen. Prosecutors say St. Clair and fellow escapee, Dennis Gene Reese, were the subjects of a nation-wide manhunt after they escaped from an Oklahoma prison where each was serving time for murder. Police say they kidnapped and handcuffed Brady at a rest stop off Interstate 65 near Elizabethtown, took Brady's truck and drove to a secluded area near Lebanon Junction where St. Clair ordered Brady out of the truck and shot him execution style.  Judge Castlen sentenced St. Clair to 35 years in prison for receiving stolen property, criminal attempted murder and criminal facilitation of arson and set an execution date of March 30th, but prosecutors say that will likely be stayed as St. Clair appeals.