final inmate to be executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary. The Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) opened later in 1989. In April 1989, the state transferred its 70 death row inmates from the Missouri State Penitentiary to the new prison in Potosi. The Missouri State Penitentiary closed in 2004. Death row inmates are currently held at the facility in Potosi; executions took place there as well until 2005, when the death chamber was moved to the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. See also Capital punishment in Missouri Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Missouri References 1944 births 1989 deaths American rapists American people convicted of murder People executed for murder 20th-century executions of American people 20th-century executions by Missouri People executed by Missouri by lethal injection People convicted of murder by Missouri People from Belton, Missouri