The 54 people Missouri has executed since 2000
Since 2000, Missouri has executed 54 people. Their names, and the names of their victims and brief details about the crimes, are listed here.
Johnson's execution was the first time that someone on death row in Missouri had a spiritual adviser beside them in the chamber during a modern execution, advocates say
Scott McLaughlin was convicted of murdering Beverly Guenther in Earth City. The inmate was living in prison in recent months as a woman named Amber McLaughlin, but filed appeals and signed a written statement at the execution with a previous name, Scott McLaughlin.
The U.S. Supreme Court had been asked to halt the execution Wednesday
Earl Ringo Jr. was the eighth person executed in Missouri this year and the 10th since November.
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death Wednesday for killing two people during a restaurant robbery in 1998, the eighth ex…
Paul Goodwin is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the killing of Joan Crotts.
Cop-killer Cecil Clayton would become the first prisoner on death row to be executed at the new time.
Cecil Clayton, now 74, shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in 1996.
Andre Cole, 52, became the third convicted killer put to death this year in Missouri.
Richard Strong's teenage daughter, whose mother he killed, had urged that his life be spared.
Orthell Wilson told police Kimber Edwards hired him to kill his wife. Now he says he was lying.
Hours before his punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution and Gov. Jay Nixon turned down a clemency request.
His execution on May 11 would be the first this year.
Buzzfeed News reporter Christopher McDaniel applied in January 2014 to be a witness 'to ensure that executions are carried out in a constitutional manner' but hasn't gotten a response.
It's the first execution in Missouri since May 2016.
Barring a last minute reprieve by Gov. Eric Greitens or the U.S. Supreme Court, Marcellus Williams will be executed on Tuesday. Had he received a fair trial, jurors almost certainly would have found enough reasonable doubt not to return a verdict that would trigger capital punishment. Because substantial reasonable doubt remains, Williams deserves to be spared death. His victim, our former colleague, would have wanted it that way.
Marcellus Williams had been scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the fatal stabbing of former Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle at her home in University City in 1998
Marcellus Williams had been scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the fatal stabbing of former Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle at her home in University City in 1998
A panel of retired judges is reviewing the case against Marcellus Williams to help determine if the murderer should be spared the death penalty.
Marcellus Williams was sentenced to death in connection with the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former Post-Dispatch reporter.
Eight years ago an assessment found multiple problems with Missouri's application of the death penalty. But nothing happened.
Russell Bucklew says his rare medical condition means he would probably choke on his own blood if given a lethal injection.
Attorneys for Russell Bucklew claim he has a medical condition that could make his death by lethal injection very painful.
This month, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the death penalty appeal from Missouri death row inmate Russell Bucklew (“Justices rule against Miss…
A spokesman for Gov. Mike Parson did not immediately say whether the governor would commute Bucklew's death sentence.
In 1996, Bucklew shot and killed Michael Sanders, with whom Bucklew's ex-girlfriend was staying. Bucklew then kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Ray, before heading toward St. Louis.
In a 24-page clemency petition, Russell Bucklew's lawyers say he is a man of profound Christian faith and repentant for his crimes. It also says his execution could be "visually gruesome" if his medical condition causes tumors in his nose and throat to rupture and bleed.
"Governor Parson has declined to grant clemency in this case," Kelli Jones, spokeswoman for Parson, said in an email Tuesday morning. She did not elaborate on the governor's reasoning.
On Jan. 6, 1989, Missouri executed George "Tiny" Mercer by lethal injection, the first execution in Missouri in 24 years.
Walter Barton is on death row for killing an Ozark woman.
Ernest Lee Johnson, 61, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.
‘As Missouri has shown itself to be a pro-life state, we should stop using the death penalty as a means of dealing with violent crimes,’ they said in a statement.
Six of the 11 who were put to death were Black, including Ernest Lee Johnson, who was executed on Oct. 5 at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
Carman L. Deck's execution date is set for May 3. He was convicted of robbing and fatally shooting James and Zelma Long in 1996.
Carman Deck's lawyers have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, set for next week.
“The State of Missouri will carry out Mr. Deck’s sentence,” Gov. Mike Parson said.
So far this year, two people have been executed in Oklahoma and one each in Texas and Alabama.
Kevin Johnson is scheduled to die by injection Nov. 29 at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
Kevin Johnson is on death row for the murder of Kirkwood police Sgt. William McEntee.
Gov. Mike Parson on Monday announced that he would not grant clemency. The execution was carried out at 7:40 p.m.
The Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks death penalty numbers, said McLaughlin would be the first transgender person to be executed.
Missouri has picked up its pace of executions over the past year. Next is a transgender inmate from St. Louis County scheduled to die on Tuesday.
The execution is set for Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre.
Missouri on Tuesday executed a transgender inmate who stabbed, strangled and raped an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago.
Since 1990, at least eight prisoners put to death in Missouri maintained they were innocent in their last breaths.
"Leonard Taylor brutally murdered a mother and her three children," Parson said in a statement Monday.
Missouri on Tuesday executed Leonard Taylor, 58, who was convicted killing his girlfriend and her three children at their home in Jennings.
Lawyers for Leonard Taylor claim he was executed Tuesday before he had exhausted his final appeals in federal court. They said it has never before happened in Missouri, and are demanding an investigation.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. • A reporter whose stories have been critical of Missouri's death penalty procedures sued the state's prisons chief Wednesd…
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