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This is a list of people executed in Missouri after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia , issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States.
By 1987, inmates could choose lethal injection as opposed to lethal gas. [1] After the execution of Christopher Leroy Collings for the 2007 rape and murder of a young girl, only eight inmates remain on death row in Missouri as of December 2024. [2]
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2024; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Brown, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 26, 2024 in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row. After reaching a height of 98 U.S. executions in 1999, the annual number hasn’t topped 30 since 2014.
Missouri, 101. Death row inmate Hank Skinner speaks during an interview with AFP, in the visiting room at the Allan B. Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, on May 25, 2022. Skinner, who had been ...
The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of the US Supreme ...
Boliek is Missouri's longest-serving death row inmate. [57] [59] [60] Richard Emery Murdered his girlfriend and her family in their home. [61] 2 years, 58 days Charles Lee Mathenia Murdered elderly sisters, 72-year-old Daisy Nash and 70-year-old Louanna Bailey in 1984. [57] 39 years, 358 days In 1994, he was declared mentally disabled. [57]