Five legal groups are supporting a Missouri death row inmate, whose execution was halted hours before it was to be carried out in 2014, saying that he can't receive an adequate defense with the money allocated. Three national criminal defense associations, a civil rights law firm and the American Bar Association made court filings last week to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on behalf of Mark Christeson, convicted of the 1998 killings of a Missouri woman and her two children. Christeson and Carter fled to California, where a detective recognized them from photos police distributed and arrested them. A similar brief was filed Friday by the National Association for Public Defense; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the National Legal Aid and Defender Association; and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center of St. Louis.

Source: Fox News August 22, 2016 16:41 UTC