missouri executions since 1976

There have been 102 executions by the state of Missouri since 1976.

Records below are listed from most recent to oldest.

Source: Death Penalty Information Center (DPI). Federal executions excluded.

Date	Name	Age at execution	Gender	Race	Number, Race, and Sex of Victims	County	Method	Juvenile
10/14/2025	Lance C. Shockley	48	Male	White	1 White Male	Carter County	Lethal Injection	No
12/03/2024	Christopher Leroy Collings	49	Male	White	1 White Female	Phelps County	Lethal Injection	No
09/24/2024	Marcellus E. Williams	55	Male	Black	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
06/11/2024	David R. Hosier	69	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Cole County	Lethal Injection	No
04/09/2024	Brian Joseph Dorsey	52	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Callaway County	Lethal Injection	No
08/01/2023	Johnny A. Johnson	45	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
06/06/2023	Michael Andrew Tisius	42	Male	White	2 White Males	Boone County	Lethal Injection	No
02/07/2023	Leonard S. Taylor	58	Male	Black	1 Black Male 3 Black Females	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
01/03/2023	Amber McLaughlin	49	Female	White	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
11/29/2022	Kevin Johnson	37	Male	Black	1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
05/03/2022	Carman L. Deck	56	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Jefferson County	Lethal Injection	No
10/05/2021	Ernest Lee Johnson	61	Male	Black	2 White Females 1 Black Male	Boone County	Lethal Injection	No
05/19/2020	Walter E. Barton	64	Male	White	1 White Female	Christian County	Lethal Injection	No
10/01/2019	Russell Earl Bucklew	51	Male	White	1 White Male	Cape Girardeau County	Lethal Injection	No
01/31/2017	Mark Christeson	37	Male	White	1 White Male 2 White Females	Maries County	Lethal Injection	No
05/11/2016	Earl Forrest	66	Male	White	1 White Male 2 White Females	Platte County	Lethal Injection	No
09/01/2015	Roderick Nunley	50	Male	Black	1 White Female	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
07/14/2015	David Zink	55	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Clair County	Lethal Injection	No
06/09/2015	Richard Strong	47	Male	Black	2 Black Females	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
04/14/2015	Andre Cole	52	Male	Black	1 Black Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
03/17/2015	Cecil Clayton	74	Male	White	1 White Male	Barry County	Lethal Injection	No
02/11/2015	Walter Timothy Storey	47	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Charles County	Lethal Injection	No
12/10/2014	Paul Goodwin	48	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
11/19/2014	Leon Taylor	56	Male	Black	1 White Male	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
09/10/2014	Earl Ringo Jr.	40	Male	Black	1 White Male 1 White Female	Boone County	Lethal Injection	No
08/06/2014	Michael Shane Worthington	43	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Charles County	Lethal Injection	No
07/16/2014	John C. Middleton	54	Male	White	1 White Female 2 White Males	Harrison County	Lethal Injection	No
06/18/2014	John E. Winfield	46	Male	Black	2 Black Females	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
04/23/2014	William L. Rousan	57	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Francois County	Lethal Injection	No
03/26/2014	Jeffrey R. Ferguson	59	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
02/26/2014	Michael Anthony Taylor	47	Male	Black	1 White Female	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
01/29/2014	Herbert L. Smulls	56	Male	Black	1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
12/11/2013	Allen L. Nicklasson	41	Male	White	1 White Male	Lafayette County	Lethal Injection	No
11/20/2013	Joseph Paul Franklin	63	Male	White	1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
02/09/2011	Martin Link	47	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
05/20/2009	Dennis J. Skillicorn	49	Male	White	1 White Male	Lafayette County	Lethal Injection	No
10/26/2005	Marlin Gray	38	Male	Black	1 White Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
08/31/2005	Timothy L. Johnston	44	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
05/18/2005	Vernon Brown	51	Male	Black	2 Black Females	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
04/27/2005	Donald Jones	38	Male	Black	1 Black Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
03/16/2005	Stanley L. Hall	37	Male	Black	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
10/29/2003	John Clayton Smith	42	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Audrain County	Lethal Injection	No
02/05/2003	Kenneth Lee Kenley	42	Male	White	1 White Male	Butler County	Lethal Injection	No
11/20/2002	William Robert Jones Jr.	37	Male	White	1 White Male	Clark County	Lethal Injection	No
08/14/2002	Daniel Anthony Basile	35	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Charles County	Lethal Injection	No
04/10/2002	Paul W. Kreutzer	30	Male	White	1 White Female	Callaway County	Lethal Injection	No
03/06/2002	Jeffrey Lane Tokar	37	Male	White	1 White Male	Warren County	Lethal Injection	No
02/06/2002	Michael Owsley	40	Male	Black	1 Black Male	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
01/09/2002	James Johnson	52	Male	White	2 White Females 2 White Males	Moniteau County	Lethal Injection	No
10/24/2001	Stephen K. Johns	55	Male	White	1 White Male	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
10/03/2001	Michael Roberts	27	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
07/11/2001	Jerome Mallett	42	Male	Black	1 White Male	Perry County	Lethal Injection	No
05/23/2001	Samuel D. Smith	40	Male	Black	1 Black Male	Callaway County	Lethal Injection	No
04/25/2001	Mose Young	46	Male	Black	3 White Males	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
03/28/2001	Tomas Grant Ervin	50	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Cole County	Lethal Injection	No
02/07/2001	Stanley D. Lingar	37	Male	White	1 White Male	St. Francois County	Lethal Injection	No
11/15/2000	James Wilson Chambers	48	Male	White	1 White Male	Jefferson County	Lethal Injection	No
09/13/2000	George B. Harris	41	Male	Black	1 Black Male	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
08/30/2000	Gary Lee Roll	47	Male	White	1 White Female 2 White Males	Boone County	Lethal Injection	No
06/28/2000	Bert Leroy Hunter	53	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Cole County	Lethal Injection	No
03/22/2000	James H. Hampton	62	Male	White	1 White Female	Callaway County	Lethal Injection	No
09/01/1999	David Leisure	49	Male	White	1 White Male	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
06/30/1999	Robert A. Walls	33	Male	White	1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
06/16/1999	Bruce W. Kilgore	38	Male	Black	1 White Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
05/26/1999	Jessie Lee Wise	46	Male	Black	1 Black Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
04/28/1999	Ralph E. Davis	61	Male	Black	1 White Female	Boone County	Lethal Injection	No
04/14/1999	Roy Ramsey Jr.	45	Male	Black	1 White Female 1 White Male	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
03/10/1999	Roy Michael Roberts	46	Male	White	1 White Male	Marion County	Lethal Injection	No
02/24/1999	James Edward Rodden	38	Male	White	1 White Female	Clay County	Lethal Injection	No
01/13/1999	Kelvin Shelby Malone	37	Male	Black	1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
04/22/1998	Glennon Paul Sweet	42	Male	White	1 White Male	Clay County	Lethal Injection	No
03/25/1998	Milton Vincent Griffin-El	37	Male	Black	1 Black Male	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
02/25/1998	Reginald Powell	29	Male	Black	2 Black Males	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
10/22/1997	Alan Jeffrey Bannister	39	Male	White	1 White Male	McDonald County	Lethal Injection	No
09/24/1997	Samuel Lee McDonald Jr.	48	Male	Black	1 Black Male	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
08/20/1997	Andrew W. Six	32	Male	White	1 White Female	Schuyler County	Lethal Injection	No
08/13/1997	Donald Edward Reese	54	Male	White	1 White Male	Jefferson County	Lethal Injection	No
08/06/1997	Ralph Cecil Feltrop	42	Male	White	1 White Female	Jefferson County	Lethal Injection	No
01/29/1997	Eric Adam Schneider	35	Male	White	2 White Males	Jefferson County	Lethal Injection	No
12/11/1996	Richard Stephen Zeitvogel	40	Male	White	1 White Male	Cole County	Lethal Injection	No
08/21/1996	Richard Dennis Oxford	39	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	Platte County	Lethal Injection	No
08/07/1996	Thomas Henry Battle	34	Male	Black	1 Black Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
07/31/1996	Emmett Clifton Nave	55	Male	American Indian or Alaska Native	1 White Female	St. Charles County	Lethal Injection	No
04/10/1996	Doyle James Williams	48	Male	White	1 White Male	Clay County	Lethal Injection	No
02/21/1996	Jeffery Paul Sloan	29	Male	White	1 White Male	Clay County	Lethal Injection	No
12/06/1995	Robert Earl O'Neal Jr.	44	Male	White	1 Black Male	Butler County	Lethal Injection	No
11/29/1995	Anthony Joe LaRette Jr.	44	Male	White	1 White Female	Warren County	Lethal Injection	No
11/15/1995	Robert T. Sidebottom	33	Male	White	1 White Female	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
07/26/1995	Robert Anthony Murray	32	Male	Black	2 Black Males	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
06/21/1995	Larry Griffin	40	Male	Black	1 Black Male	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
05/03/1995	Emmitt Foster	42	Male	Black	1 Black Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
10/06/1993	Frank Joseph Guinan	47	Male	White	1 White Male	Franklin County	Lethal Injection	No
07/28/1993	Frederick Lashley	29	Male	Black	1 Black Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	Yes
07/21/1993	Walter Junior Blair	32	Male	Black	1 White Female	Jackson County	Lethal Injection	No
01/27/1993	Martsay Bolder	35	Male	Black	1 Black Male	Randolph County	Lethal Injection	No
10/21/1992	Ricky Lee Grubbs	33	Male	White	1 White Male	St. Francois County	Lethal Injection	No
08/23/1991	Maurice Oscar Byrd	36	Male	Black	3 White Females 1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
08/31/1990	George Clifton Gilmore	44	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
05/17/1990	Leonard Marvin Laws	40	Male	White	1 White Female 1 White Male	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
05/11/1990	Winford L. Stokes	39	Male	Black	1 White Female	St. Louis County	Lethal Injection	No
01/18/1990	Gerald Smith	31	Male	White	1 White Female	St. Louis city	Lethal Injection	No
01/06/1989	George C. Mercer	44	Male	White	1 White Female	Cass County	Lethal Injection	No

Source: Death Penalty Information Center (DPI), Execution Database. Filters: Missouri; Federal: No.

Nine fields from DPI's public results table are reproduced here; State and Region are omitted because all records are from Missouri. Victim information describes the death sentence that was carried out; additional sentences involving other victims may not be represented. DPI reports that its information comes from news reports, state departments of corrections, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; older county and victim-gender information was provided by Professor Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina.

This is a copy of DPI's data and does not update automatically. Conviction dates, birth dates, and victim names are not provided in this results table.

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