Exploration Events Presents: Missouri State Penitentiary
Missouri State Penitentiary
115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101
From $175.00
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The bloodiest 47 acres in America!
Walk the Same Halls as Infamous Inmates Sonny Liston: Learned to box at MSP and went on to become Heavyweight Champion.
James Earl Ray: Escaped from MSP before assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr.
100 Years Older than Alcatraz
Received its first inmate in 1836; the same year, month and day that the Battle of the Alamo was fought Oldest continually operating prison west of the Mississippi River
Served Missouri for 168 years; from 1836-2004
Home of the Gas Chamber
40 inmates put to death in the gas chamber between 1937-1989 Bonnie Heady only woman to be executed in the gas chamber in a double execution alongside Carl Hall for the Greenlease killing
Last execution at MSP carried out in 1989. Tiny Mercer put to death in Gas Chamber by lethal injection.
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