24 April 2010 :

The Kentucky Supreme Court has reversed for the 2^nd time the death sentence of  Michael Dale St. Clair, 53, white, because of incorrect instructions given to the jury. St. Clair was in jail in Oklahoma, on two 1991 murder convictions, when, in Sept. 1991, he escaped and killed three more people, including Frank Brady. St. Clair was first sentenced to death on Sept. 11, 1998 for kidnapping and killing Frank Brady on October 6, 1991. But in 2005 the conviction was overturned after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled  that a judge improperly allowed St. Clair's ex-wife to testify against him. Then he was sentenced to death again on Sept. 30, 2005, and today that sentence, by a 5-2 vote, has been overturned again. The court concluded in a ruling released in Frankfort that the Bullitt County trial court had erred in the case of St. Clair by incorrectly instructing the jury that they could consider all of St. Clair's prior convictions for capital murder at the time Frank Brady was killed. St. Clair has been convicted of 4 other murders and is also under two sentences of life without parole for the murders committed in Oklahoma.