Exploration Events Presents: Missouri State Penitentiary

@ Missouri State Penitentiary

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.