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Missouri Death Row

Missouri puts to death first inmate since botched execution

The U.S. Supreme Court and Missouri's governor denied petitions late Tuesday from an inmate who become the first U.S. Inmate put to death since a lethal injection went awry last month in Arizona. Ref. USAToday

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Missouri executes inmate Paul Goodwin for killing woman with hammer

Missouri inmate Paul Goodwin, 48, was put to death early Wednesday for beating Joan Crotts, 63, to death with a hammer in St. Louis County in 1998. It was the state's record 10th lethal injection of 2014 to match Texas for the most executions in the country this year. Ref. USAToday

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Missouri performs its first execution of 2015

Walter Timothy Storey was the first Missouri inmate put to death this year after a record 10 executions in 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution despite concerns about Missouri's secretive process for obtaining and using the lethal injection drug pentobarbital. Storey was convicted of breaking into his neighbor's home and slitting her throat in 1990. Ref. USAToday

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Missouri executes man for 1996 killing of sheriff's deputy

Cecil Clayton, Missouri's oldest death row inmate, was executed Tuesday night for gunning down Christopher Castetter, a 29-year-old sheriff's deputy, in 1996. Attorneys for Clayton, 74, had argued that he had brain damage related to a 1972 sawmill accident and suffered from worsening dementia. Ref. USAToday