USA - Missouri. Judge Thomas Mountjoy sentenced Craig Wood to death

Greene County Circuit Judge Thomas Mountjoy sentenced Craig Wood, 49, White, to death after an out-of-county jury empaneled in the February 2014 rape-murder of a ten-year-old girl, Hailey Owens. Woods was convicted in November of first-degree murder but the jury couldn’t decide whether to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Missouri and Indiana require judges to make the determination of life or death if the capital sentencing jury does not reach a unanimous verdict. No Missouri jury has imposed a death sentence since 2013.