Missouri Department Of Corrections

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FILE - This April 21, 2014, file photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Mark Christeson, who was convicted of killing a woman and her two children nearly 20 years ago, Christeson is scheduled to die by injection on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Mo. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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This Dec. 1, 2013 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows David Zink, who was convicted of abducting and killing 19-year-old Amanda Morton in 2001. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2014 file photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is Russell Bucklew who is scheduled to die for killing a romantic rival as part of a crime spree in southeast Missouri in 1996. Bucklew, who suffers from a congenital condition that causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, told the Associated Press Friday, May 16, 2014 that he is scared that the lethal drug could cause him to suffer or be left alive but brain-dead. His would be the first execution since Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack 43 minutes after a vein collapsed following injection. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections, File)

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In this June 6, 2013 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is Maria Isa. Prison officials said that Isa died Wednesday, April 30, 2014 of apparent natural causes at a prison in Vandalia, Mo. The 70-year-old was serving a life sentence for the 1989 slaying of her teenage daughter in a crime that was chillingly captured on an FBI surveillance tape and apparently prompted by the girl’s resistance to the family’s Islamic traditions. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)

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FILE - In this file photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is Cornealious Anderson who was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, sentenced to 13 years in jail and told to await instruction on when to report to prison. Those instructions never came and he went on about his life until the clerical error was caught in 2013. Anderson, now jailed, filed a petition in Mississippi County Circuit Court on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 seeking to require the Missouri Department of Corrections to credit the 13 years he was technically at large after a 2000 robbery conviction. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections, File)

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In this Dec. 1, 2013 provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is William Rousan. Rousan is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. He was sentenced to death for killing 62-year-old Grace Lewis in 1993 and was sentenced to life in prison for killing her 67-year-old husband. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)

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This undated photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Cornealious Anderson. Anderson was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, sentenced to 13 years in jail and told to await instruction on when to report to prison. Those instructions never came and he went on about his life until the clerical error was caught in 2013. Anderson's attorney says Anderson was not a fugitive, was never on the run and has filed an appeal seeking the release of the married father of three he described as a model citizen. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)

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In this Feb. 9, 2014 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is Russell Bucklew. The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 8, 2014 set a May 21 execution date for convicted killer Russell Bucklew, continuing a trend of scheduling one execution per month. Bucklew was convicted in the fatal shooting of Michael Sanders, a romantic rival, then abducting and raping Bucklew's ex-girlfriend. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)

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In this March 17, 2014 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is Jeffrey Ferguson. Ferguson was sentenced to die for killing a 17-year-old St. Charles County girl in 1989. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)

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FILE - This Feb. 8, 2012 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Alyssa Bustamante, who was sentenced to life in prison for the October 2009 slaying of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten in St. Martins, a small town just west of Jefferson City, Mo. Bustamante, who described killing her neighbor girl as an "ahmazing" thrill, was to appear in court Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 to argue that her guilty plea should be set aside because it was made under the threat of a mandatory life prison sentence. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections, File)

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FILE - This Dec. 13, 2011 file photo released by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows death-row inmate Herbert Smulls. Missouri on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 executed Smulls, the state's third execution since November. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections, File)

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** FILE ** In this Dec. 13, 2011, file photo released by the Missouri Department of Corrections is death-row inmate Herbert Smulls who was scheduled to die by injection one minute after midnight Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, for killing St. Louis County jeweler Stephen Honickman in 1991. The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for the Missouri death row inmate. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)