Clair Michael Dale St

Victims
6
Years active
1990 - 1991
Location
Oklahoma/New Mexico/Kentucky, USA
Method
Shooting
Status
Arrested on December 19, 1991 and sentenced to death in Kentucky on September 14, 1998. That sentence was overturned in 2004; resentenced to death on September 30, 2005, and overturned again in 2018 by the Kentucky Supreme Court over inaccurate information given to the jury.

St Clair was born in 1957. He had convictions in Oklahoma and was serving a sentence there when, in 1991, he escaped with another prisoner.

During the escape the two men moved through Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kentucky, robbing and killing. In Kentucky they abducted Frank Brady, a farmer, took his truck and shot him. St Clair was arrested on December 19, 1991.

Those named in the record are his uncle; William Henry Kelsey Jr, the man he hired to kill his uncle; Timothy Keeling; and Frances C. Brady.

He was sentenced to death in Kentucky on September 14, 1998. That sentence was overturned in 2004. He was resentenced to death on September 30, 2005, and that sentence was overturned in 2018 by the Kentucky Supreme Court, which found that the jury had been given inaccurate information about his prior convictions.

The figure of six covers killings in the three states across the escape and earlier matters, of which the Kentucky murder is the capital case.

Three decades of capital litigation over a single killing, with two death sentences set aside on the state's own errors, is what this entry is about. Nothing accessible records the current position, and it belongs on the re-check list.