KANSAS CITY - A Kansas man who lived in a ... and rape in connection with the child’s death. Prosecutors said Mickel Cherry, 26, admitted under questioning to suffocating Zoey Felix, 5, in ...

Mickel Cherry pleaded guilty Friday to two crimes ... "Both the United States Supreme Court and current Kansas law prohibit the application of the death penalty for individuals with intellectual ...

Prosecutors said Mickel Cherry, 26, admitted under questioning ... of lethal injection would have been carried out because Kansas hasn’t executed anyone since 1965. With Cherry’s guilty ...

A man who lived in a makeshift camp with a homeless 5-year-old Kansas girl and her father pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder and rape in connection with the child's death. Mickel Cherry ...

A man who lived in a makeshift camp with a homeless 5-year-old Kansas girl and her father has pleaded guilty to rape and first-degree murder in connection with the child’s death.

Mickel Cherry’s plea in Shawnee County District ... the sentence of lethal injection would have been carried out because Kansas hasn’t executed anyone since 1965. Tavares Jefferson, 47 ...

Mickel Cherry appeared at a Shawnee County courtroom on the morning of Dec. 13 after documents were filed earlier in the month indicating he was considering changing his plea. He changed his plea ...