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| First Missouri inmate executed in 17 months |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/16/2005 |
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A man who abducted a Missouri woman in 1994 and threw her off a Mississippi River bridge to her death has been executed. Thirty-seven-year-old Stanley Hall is the first Missouri inmate to be put to death in the past 17 months. He was pronounced dead from an injection of drugs at the Potosi Correctional Center shortly after midnight. Hall was convicted in the 1994 abduction and murder of Barbara Jo Wood. His attorney had sought to halt the execution on a claim that Hall was mentally retarded. But Hall was judged to be only borderline retarded and thus fell outside a law that bars execution of the retarded. In a final written statement, Hall apologized to the victim's family. But one of her brothers says he thinks the only thing Hall was sorry about was that he was about to die. |
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