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Name Race Age Sex Date of execution Method County or Independent City Victim(s) Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White 44 M January 6, 1989 [a] Lethal injection: Cass [b] Karen Keeton John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White 32 M January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts [d] 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black 39 M May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 4
The majority of non-death row prisoners at PCC had very long sentences and had been convicted for crimes similar to those for which death row inmates were convicted. [6] MDOC began to stop using the word "death row", believing it to be negative. It began referring to death row prisoners as " 'capital punishment' (CP) inmates". [8] For the first ...
Mercer was the first inmate on Missouri's death row to exhaust his appeals, but he was not the first to ever have a concrete execution date set in the post-Gregg v. Georgia era of executions. Gerald Smith, another Missouri death row inmate who waived his appeals, had three execution dates set prior to Mercer's being set in October.
At least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1973, largely Black and Latinx inmates who are wrongfully convicted at a higher rate than white people, according to the ...
Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Leroy Collings on Tuesday, 17 years after he confessed to raping and killing his friend's 9-year-old stepdaughter. Collings, 49, was executed by ...
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.
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