Murderers must pay for their crimes
Thursday, August 15, 2002
There's rarely anything to celebrate when the state of Missouri executes someone. Wednesday's execution of Daniel Basile is no different. Basile, convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme in 1992, was put to death Wednesday night following a 22-hour reprieve from Gov. Bob Holden. In the end the courts found insufficient evidence of any wrongdoing during his trial and Basile died by lethal injection.