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Title: State's 3-Year-Old Death Law Unused
Description: Article contains a summary of the history of capital punishment legislation in Missouri to 1980. ''Missouri has had a state death penalty law on the books since 1938, when the state assumed the task of executions from county sheriffs who, before then, had routinely hung murderers frontier style in county courthous squares or jails. (At the time of this article), thirty-nine persons have been put to death by Missouri since 1938. ..The last execution in Missouri took place February 26, 1965, when Lloyd Lee Anderson of St. Louis died in the gas chamber in Jefferson City for the slaying of a teenager. The slaying apparently occurred in a holdup attempt in 1961.''
Date: 1980-05-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Beastly Benders: Detectives May Abandon the Pursuit and Give the Gang a Rest
Description: Article about the executions of four members of the Bender family of Kansas, including Kate Bender, for murder, giving a brief history of their killings and suspicious actions since 1877 and including a recent chase of a "gang" of Benders.
Date: 1877-05-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Three Pay for a Crime: Slayers of "Happy" Smith Are Hanged at the County Jail
Description: "Tony Mangiaracina, Carl Nasello and John Messino, convicted slayers of 'Happy' Smith in the Home Trust Company robbery at the time of the Republican national convention here in June, 1928, were hanged at 6:04 o'clock this morning at the county jail."
Date: 1930-07-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hanging In the Courthouse
Description: On May 21, 1937, Dudley (Hardface) Barr was hanged on the 15th floor of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City. Barr was a 39-year-old convicted murderer of a policy writer. He was the first and only person hanged in the then-new Courthouse under the old state law that permitted the hanging of criminals in all counties of the state. A 1937 law required that criminals under the death sentence be executed by gas at the state penitentiary.
Date: 1962-01-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: When Respected Brothers Slew Missouri Family
Description: File containing photos, illustrations, and biographical article about George Taylor and his brother William Taylor, murderers of Gus Meeks and his family on May 10, 1894 in Carroll County, Missouri. Description of the family feud over stolen cattle and arson and the formerly respectable men involved including William, a Missouri state representative and father in Browning, Missouri.
Date: 1963-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Only Execution of a Woman in Missouri Occurred in 1834
Description: Article about the hanging of Mary Andres in 1834 in Lexington, Missouri for the murder of her child, a timely topic because of the question "hanging" in the air over the possible execution of Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, or Bonnie Heady, for her kidnaping and murder of Bobby Greenlease, Jr., in 1953.
Date: 1953-11-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Men To Call
Description: Discusses the work of O'Brien and Gipson, who represent underprivileged clients and handle appeals of persons on death row.
Date: 2000-04-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Garster-Hawkins
Description: Story of the murder of Williamson Hawkins, a miller in Jackson County, by Henry Garster in Westport in 1838, after unsuccessful attempts to poison him by his wife, ending in the death by hanging of Garster in 1839, "the first 'legal' hanging in Jackson County, Missouri."
Date: 1974-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

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