How the Missouri legal system makes it easier to be sentenced to death
Missouri is one of only two states where an individual judge can ultimately sentence someone to death.
Source: komu.com
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Missouri is one of only two states where an individual judge can ultimately sentence someone to death.
Since its inception in 1950, the list - reserved for the nation's worst criminals - has only contained a handful of women, with just 11 of its 529 fugitives being female.