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2. List of people executed in Missouri - Wikipedia

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   Name Race Age Sex Date of execution Method County or Independent City Victim(s) Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White 44 M January 6, 1989 [a] Lethal injection: Cass [b] Karen Keeton John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White 32 M January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts [d] 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black 39 M May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 4

3. Potosi Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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   After inmates filed legal challenges, in the late 20th century, prison administrators began to consider whether to integrate death row prisoners into the non-death row population. The majority of non-death row prisoners at PCC had very long sentences and had been convicted for crimes similar to those for which death row inmates were convicted. [6]

4. George Mercer - Wikipedia

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   Mercer was the first inmate on Missouri's death row to exhaust his appeals, but he was not the first to ever have a concrete execution date set in the post-Gregg v. Georgia era of executions. Gerald Smith, another Missouri death row inmate who waived his appeals, had three execution dates set prior to Mercer's being set in October.

5. Missouri's death row had nearly 100 inmates in the 1990s. Now ...

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   The Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row. After reaching a height of 98 U.S. executions in 1999, the annual number hasn’t topped 30 since 2014.

6. Capital punishment in Missouri - Wikipedia

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   By 1987, inmates could choose lethal injection as opposed to lethal gas. [1] After the execution of Christopher Leroy Collings for the 2007 rape and murder of a young girl, only eight inmates remain on death row in Missouri as of December 2024. [2]

7. Hearing set to determine if a Missouri death row inmate is ...

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   A Missouri judge on Tuesday set an Aug. 21 date for a hearing to determine if Marcellus Williams is innocent of the murder that landed him on death row — a hearing that comes just a little over ...