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This is a complete list of all inmates executed in Missouri since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976.
To sort by other criteria, click on the headings for those fields in the search results. Search results are displayed below the search options. If no options are checked, the search will display all executions. To download the database as a spreadsheet (csv format), click here.
List of people executed in Missouri since 1976. Since 1989, a total of 100 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.
No.NameRaceAge100Black5599David Russell HosierWhite6998White5297White45- History of The Death Penalty
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The death penalty was first used in Missouri in 1810 when Peter Johnson was hanged for murder. Missouri carried out a total of 285 executions from 1810 to 1965. Hanging was the primary method of execution until 1936, when lethal gas came into use from 1937 until 1987. Starting in 1987, lethal injection was added as an option for inmates in addition...
1937 - Roscoe “Red” Jackson is executedby hanging in the lastpublic execution in the United States. 1989 - In Wilkins v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court finds that capital punishment imposed on a person for a crime committed at 16 or 17 does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment. This decision was reached in consolida...
Roper v. Simmons (2005): Christopher Simmonswas 17 years old when he and two other teenagers, broke into the home of Shirley Crook, kidnapped her, and pushed her off a bridge into the Meremac River. Simmons bragged about the murder to friends, and eventually confessed to police. He was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. Simmons appealed...
Joseph Amrine was serving time for robbery and burglary in Missouri State Penitentiary when he was accused of stabbing fellow inmate Gary Barber, in 1986. No physical evidence linked Amrine to the crime, and he was convicted primarily based on tesimony from other inmates and was sentenced to death. Amrine appealed his death sentence and the Missour...
Darrell Mease was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his former drug partner, Lloyd Lawrence, Lawrence’s wife, and Lawrence’s grandson. He was scheduled to be executed in 1999. Pope John Paul II was visiting Missouri at the time and made a personal plea to Governor Carnahan to grant Mease mercy. The day before Mease’s execution, Gov...
Aug 16, 2011 · Read all about the notorious inmates that were executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, MO before it was decommissioned after 168 years.
Jan 4, 2023 · Amber McLaughlin was executed Tuesday by the state of Missouri. Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Since 1990, at least eight prisoners put to death in Missouri maintained...
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Jan 26, 2024 · Attorneys for the man convicted of killing a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter in 1998 say they are worried he will not be alive for the St. Louis County prosecutor to finish reviewing his...
