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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.
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Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
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.
Williams, 55, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in the St. Louis suburb of University City. Missouri death row inmate gets another chance at a ...
A Missouri death row inmate is suing Gov. Mike Parson over the governor's decision to dissolve a board of inquiry that was convened to investigate the man's innocence claim. The lawsuit on behalf ...
A death row inmate in Missouri is currently fighting for his life as experts say new DNA evidence proves his innocence of a 1998 murder – just weeks before he faces execution.. Marcellus ...
By 1987, inmates could choose lethal injection as opposed to lethal gas. [2] 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. [3]