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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.
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 ...
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] From 1937 until 1987 lethal gas inhalation was used.
A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...
Murder of Felicia Gayle. Felicia Gayle Picus (known as Lisha) was an American journalist. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter was found stabbed to death in her home during the day on August 11, 1998. Gayle, 42 years old, was killed during a burglary in her gated community in University City, Missouri. She was stabbed and cut 43 times with a ...
Death (2006) Details. Victims. Beverly Guenther, 45. Date. November 20, 2003. Amber McLaughlin (January 13, 1973 – January 3, 2023) was an American transgender woman executed in Missouri for the 2003 rape and murder of her ex-girlfriend, Beverly Guenther. At the time of the crime, McLaughlin was living as male; she transitioned from male to ...
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.
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News [1] for 19 years, from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.