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Missouri executions expected to slow
By dailycommercial.com
Published: 11/09/2015

ST. LOUIS — Eighteen convicted killers have been executed in Missouri in the last two years, a pace that is expected to slow significantly with death sentences on the decline and many of the 28 remaining death row inmates still filing appeals.

Only Texas, with 24, has performed more executions than Missouri since November 2013. But execution appears to be imminent for just one Missouri inmate.

“They’ve basically run out of people to kill, to put it in an undiplomatic way,” said Kent Gipson, a Kansas City-based attorney who represents several inmates.

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