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Date of execution County Victim(s) Age at offense Age at execution Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White January 6, 1989 [a] Cass [b] Karen Keeton 34 44 John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts 23 32 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 27 39 4 Leonard Marvin Laws White ...
History. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Missouri and was first used in 1810 in the form of hanging. From 1810 to 1965, 285 people were executed. From 1976-1988 none were executed, and from 1989-2024 98 persons were executed. [1]
Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Jr. (February 3, 1947 – September 28, 1953) was a six-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, United States, who was the victim of a kidnapping and homicide on September 28, 1953. His father, Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Sr., was a multi-millionaire auto dealer, and the demanded ransom payment was the largest in American ...
Centralia Massacre. The Centralia Massacre was an incident during the American Civil War in which 24 unarmed U.S. Army soldiers were captured and executed in Centralia, Missouri on September 27, 1864, by a band of men under the command of the notorious Confederate guerrilla leader "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Future outlaw Jesse James was among the ...
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 ...
W. Ronald Wolfe (rapist) Categories: 20th-century executions by the United States. 20th century in Missouri. People executed by Missouri. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.
This list may not reflect recent changes . List of people executed in Missouri. Categories: Deaths by execution in the United States by state. Prisoners sentenced to death by Missouri. Prisoners who died in Missouri detention. Capital punishment in Missouri.
W. Thomas Andrew Williamson. Categories: People executed by Missouri. People executed by the United States by hanging.