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January 30, 2014

Missouri Executes Death Row Prisoner After Brief Stay 
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Missouri has executed a death row prisoner just 24 hours after the U.S.
Supreme Court granted him a stay. Herbert Smulls was sentenced to death
for the 1991 murder of a jewelry store owner. His attorneys had won a
delay after arguing Missouri should be forced to name the compounding
pharmacy used to produce the execution drug, which is not subject to
federal oversight. But the Supreme Court followed up by denying all of
Smulls' appeals, clearing the way for his death. Missouri began using a
new execution drug last year after a drug manufacturer stopped making
the state's long-running three-drug combination.

 

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