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Since 1989, a total of 101 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. Before April 1989, all executions were carried out at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.
The Missouri Department of Corrections is the state law enforcement agency that operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Missouri. It has its headquarters in Missouri's capital of Jefferson City. The Missouri Department of Corrections has 21 facilities statewide, including two community release centers.
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.
Prior to Mercer's execution, the most recent execution in Missouri had taken place on February 26, 1965, when Lloyd Leo Anderson died by gas inhalation for the murder of a delivery boy during the robbery of a St. Louis drugstore. [15] [4] Mercer was the final inmate to be executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary.
Since Memorial Day, at least three people, including one child, have died while at the lake. All three of them drowned, including a 6-year-old who died earlier this month after trying to jump onto ...
A 2024 review by the Department of Justice found that at least 28 incarcerated people were murdered while in custody during 2022, with 50 deaths classified as "accidental," a term that is not ...
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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. [2]Bustamante lured Olten into the woods before strangling and stabbing her to death.