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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.
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 228 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
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.
There are currently 12 inmates on Missouri’s death row. The state’s next execution is scheduled for September. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 24, 2024 in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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]
A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...