Attorney General's News Release

November 29, 1994

Nixon asks Missouri Supreme Court to set execution date for I-55 killer

Jefferson City, Mo. — Attorney General Jay Nixon today asked the Missouri Supreme Court to set an execution date for Roosevelt Pollard, convicted of the December 1983 slaying of an Arkansas businessman at a Bootheel rest area off Interstate 55. The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 14 denied Pollard’s request to hear his case.

“Roosevelt Pollard cold-bloodedly shot Richard Alford three times in the head because Pollard wanted his car,” Nixon said. “Two weeks later he robbed a family and killed a 13-year-old boy on I-55 in Illinois. Now, more than ten years after these heinous crimes, it is time for Pollard’s sentence to be carried out and for justice to be served for the families of his victims and for society as a whole.”

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