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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 Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC) is a maximum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections. It houses up to 1996 inmates, with a staff of 660. It is located at Jefferson City Correctional Center (C-5), Institution, 8200 No More Victims Road Jefferson City, MO 65101. The current JCCC ...
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 ...
The Missouri Department of Corrections is the state law enforcement agency that operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Missouri. It has its headquarters in Missouri's capital of Jefferson City. The Missouri Department of Corrections has 21 facilities statewide, including two community release centers.
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 ]
His death was a trigger of the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal: Abed Hamed Mowhoush: 2003-11-26 Iraq (detained by the United States) Died from torture during a CIA interrogation: Air vice-marshal of the Iraqi Air Force: His death was initially attributed to "natural causes" by the CIA.
Five Missouri Department of Corrections officers were indicted in the December death of Othel Moore, a 38-year-old prisoner in Jefferson City.
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