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Since 1989, a total of 101 people were executed by the State of Missouri. All were convicted of first-degree murder and all were executed by lethal injection, although lethal gas remains a legal method of execution. Before April 1989, all executions were carried out at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.
The first person executed in the modern era was George Mercer who was executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri on January 6, 1989. [8] The next 61 executions starting with Gerald Smith were done at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri . [ 9 ]
The Missouri State Penitentiary was designed by John Haviland and constructed in the early 1830s to serve the newly admitted (1821) state of Missouri.Jefferson City had been designated the state capital in 1822, and Governor John Miller suggested that the state's main prison be constructed there to help the city maintain its somewhat tenuous status against other towns trying to obtain the ...
Christopher Collings, 49, was pronounced dead at 7:10 p.m. Eastern Time at the state prison in Bonne Terre, the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a statement. Missouri uses high doses of ...
Despite dozens of prison staffers’ campaign to save him, Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006. Dorsey, 51, was the first prisoner to be ...
Missouri is one of five states to carry out capital punishment this year. A sixth state, Idaho, called off an execution after the execution team could not set an IV line.
Murdered three convenience store workers in Columbia, Missouri. Executed on October 5, 2021. Carman Deck – Executed on May 3, 2022. Kevin Johnson Jr. – Executed on November 29, 2022. Amber McLaughlin – Executed on January 3, 2023. Brian Joseph Dorsey – Executed on April 9, 2024. David Hosier – Executed on June 11, 2024.
Credit - Missouri Department of Corrections—AP. M arcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 24, despite concerns citing his potential innocence. Williams died by ...