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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.
11 people were killed and over 200 were made homeless when police bombed a residential neighborhood. April 3, 1986 Erdman Bascomb: 41 Seattle, Washington: During a drug raid on a Genesee apartment police burst in and shot Bascomb in the chest. Bascomb was holding a black TV remote, which the officer who shot him said he mistook for a gun. [45]
Life imprisonment with the possibility of conditional release in 2024, plus consecutive sentence of 30 years in prison Elizabeth Olten was a 9-year-old girl who was murdered by her neighbor Alyssa Bustamante, who was 15 at the time, in St. Martins, Missouri on October 21, 2009.
Attorneys for 37-year-old Michael Politte confirmed Tuesday that he had been given parole, the Kansas City Star reported. He is set to be released April 23 from the Jefferson City Correctional ...
Capital punishment in Missouri 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, 101 persons were executed. [2] From 1937 until 1987 lethal gas inhalation was used. By 1987, inmates could choose lethal injection as opposed to lethal gas. [2]
He killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. He was given 12 life sentences (one for each murder), and an additional 3,318 years in prison for numerous counts of attempted murder, one count of possessing an illegal explosive device, and one sentence enhancement of a crime of violence. [56] Ra Diggs: 2015 12 life sentences plus 105 years United States
Parson, a former rural sheriff, has pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 800 people while clearing a backlog of more than 3,500 clemency requests he inherited upon taking office in June ...
Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams is expected to be resentenced to life without parole under a consent judgment reached Wednesday, the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney’s Office ...