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Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (ERDCC) houses the state's execution chamber. [2] The first person executed in the modern era was George Mercer who was executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri on January 6, 1989. [9] The next 61 executions starting with Gerald Smith were done at the Potosi ...
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.
Shortly before 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Jeff Hood was escorted through a maze of halls and security checks at the prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, leading him into the state’s execution chamber.
The ERDCC serves as the point of admission for male offenders committed by the courts in eastern Missouri to the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC), responsible for their classification through medical and mental tests. It contains Missouri's execution chamber, with executions carried out by lethal injection. [4]
Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center is shown in this Feb. 7, 2023 photograph. The prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, houses the prison system’s execution chamber.
On Dec. 13, days after Frierdich had agreed to support Dorsey, the Missouri Supreme Court handed down an execution date: April 9. “Everything became a lot more urgent,” Frierdich said.
An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison, although not always at the same prison where the death row population is housed. Inside the chamber is the device used to carry out the death sentence.
At 6:00 p.m., Marcellus lay on a gurney in the state’s execution chamber, a stark room in the bowels of the Eastern facility with whitewashed cinder-block walls, mirrored windows, and a black ...