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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 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. [10] The next 61 executions starting with Gerald Smith were done at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri. [11] Since April 2005, executions have been 25 miles east ...
People executed by Missouri (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in Missouri" ... This page was last edited on 6 October 2010, at 02:23 (UTC).
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This was the case for all federal executions in the 20th century, before the first executions at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 2001. Heady is the only woman executed by the federal government by gassing. Heady is buried in Clearmont, Nodaway County, Missouri, where she grew up. [11] Only $288,000 of the ransom money was recovered.
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. While incarcerated for the crimes, McLaughlin transitioned from male to female [1] and later became the first openly transgender person to be executed in the United ...
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The Missouri Supreme Court set David Hosier’s execution date for June 11. On April 2, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office requested a date be set for Christopher Collings.