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Missouri and the Death Penalty

Missouri allows the death penalty as an option in cases of first-degree murder.

The sentence is death by lethal injection or lethal gas.

Minimum age for death penalty: 16

Executions 1930-1976: 73

Executions since 1977: 32

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