Missouri’s status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute.

A Missouri man has been executed for sexually assaulting and killing a 9-year-old girl, then dumping her body in a sinkhole outside of town.

A clemency petition for a Missouri man facing the death penalty for sexually assaulting and killing a child says he was a frequent victim of physical and sexual abuse in his youth and has a “structurally abnormal” brain that impairs his judgment.