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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.
A death row inmate convicted of raping and killing his friend's 9-year-old stepdaughter in 2007 is set to be executed in Missouri on Tuesday in what would be the state's fourth execution of 2024.
Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, having been convicted for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former police reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch killed during a burglary ...
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Under Missouri state law, should the Missouri Supreme Court issue a death warrant, an execution date would be set between 90 and 120 days from the date of the court order. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] On August 13, 2024, the Missouri Supreme Court approved the death warrant of Collings, scheduling his death sentence to be carried out on December 3, 2024.
Kevin Johnson Jr. (September 23, 1985 – November 29, 2022) was an American man executed in Missouri for the 2005 murder of police officer William McEntee. [1] Johnson's case has partly drawn attention because his daughter, Khorry Ramney, was not allowed to witness her father's execution due to her age (19), the same age Johnson was when he committed the crime for which he was sentenced to death.
Dorsey is scheduled to be executed April 9. Another man, David Russell Hosier , 69, is scheduled to die June 11. Missouri is one of six states with executions scheduled for 2024, according to the ...
On July 26, 2002, 6-year-old Cassandra "Casey" Lynn Williamson (born November 23, 1995), disappeared from her hometown of Valley Park, Missouri. After an extensive search, her body was found at an abandoned glass factory. Subsequently, investigations led to the arrest of Johnny Allen Johnson (born March 16, 1978), who was a family acquaintance.