year in review: 2009: Missouri Death Row

Missouri Death Row, photo by David Eulitt / The Kansas City Star ©

Missouri death row inmate Dennis Skillicorn sat in the visitors room behind glass on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. Skillicorn was one of three men convicted of killing Richard Drummond in 1994 and was executed by lethal injection the following Wednesday.