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State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County, Missouri, in which an enslaved woman named Celia was tried for the first-degree murder of her owner, Robert Newsom. Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men [1] and sentenced to death.
Celia (c. 1835 - December 21, 1855) was a slave found guilty of the first-degree murder of Robert Newsom, her master, in Callaway County, Missouri.Her defense team, led by John Jameson, argued an affirmative defense: Celia killed Robert Newsom by accident in self-defense to stop Newsom from raping her, which was a controversial argument at the time. [2]
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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.
The judges argue that the death sentence was imposed by a judge, not the jury, in what they call “a flaw in Missouri’s capital sentencing scheme.” Pointing to ‘flaw’ in Missouri death ...
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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